Gazebo Kura Roadmap

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Hi Gazebo Community!

Based on input from Gazebo PMC members and the Community Survey, I’m happy to announce that we have published the Gazebo Kura roadmap.

A change in this year’s roadmap is that we are introducing the idea of a secondary roadmap, which is a list of items the Gazebo PMC is looking to implement with the help of the community. Committers on the Gazebo project will focus on the primary roadmap, but will provide guidance and review to anyone in the community willing to work on any of the items. Each item will have one or more point of contacts (POCs) who are Gazebo committers and who will be responsible for coordinating with a community member to get roadmap item implemented. The POC(s) will provide a description of the roadmap item on a Github issue as well as some suggestions on how the feature should be implemented.

We are currently in the process of creating the Github issues, but in the meantime, if you are interested in contributing, please reach out here or on Zulip - #Gazebo General.

:gazebo: Gazebo PMC :gazebo:

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What about ros_gz roadmap? Is there some? And is it already set that Kura will be THE Gazebo version for ROS Lyrical? I know you did some timeline adjustments, so can we now expect that the 5-year support intervals of Kura and Lyrical will fully overlap?

EDIT: Oh, I see Kura will not be an LTS… so…?

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We don’t have a different roadmap for ros_gz. There are a few items in the secondary roadmap, namely:

  • Improve multi-robot simulation with ROS
  • Dynamically create ros_gz bridges
  • Provide an integration with ros2’s resource_retriever

As we have done in the past, new releases of ROS will be paired with the latest version of Gazebo available at the time of the ROS release. This means Lyrical will be paired with Jetty and they will both be LTS. We have been discussing whether we should extend the support windows of Gazebo so that there is a full overlap, but there hasn’t been a decision made yet.

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