Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-10-13

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Hi Gazebo Community!

This week’s meeting was held on 2025-10-13T18:00:00Z and the following is a summary:

The main focus of this week’s meeting was roadmap planning, so we didn’t go over the usual progress updates. However, here’s a quick look at some ongoing work:

  • Progress updates:
    • Work continues on deprecating get.gazebosim.org. You can track the progress in this pull request.
    • A shim layer is being added for Python in ROS Gazebo vendor packages to help with older ROS versions. The PR is up for review.
    • We’re looking into using tools like release-please and conventional commits to improve our release process.
    • A draft PR is in progress to allow loading a Zenoh configuration from a file in gz-transport. This will enable the use of the Zenoh router. See the PR here.
  • New agenda items:
    • Gazebo Kura Roadmap Brainstorming: The entire meeting was dedicated to brainstorming potential features and improvements for the next Gazebo release, Kura. No final decisions have been made, but here are the topics we discussed:
      • Improving Documentation: We’re considering ways to make our docs better, like combining different tutorial sources and bringing over useful guides from Gazebo classic.
      • Supporting Third-Party Plugins: We had a big discussion on how to better support community plugins. The current thinking is to start with an “awesome list” to highlight community projects. A more involved solution using the ROS buildfarm might be explored later.
      • Zenoh Refinements: Further work on the Zenoh integration was discussed. A key idea is adding shared memory support, which could be a big performance win, especially between separate processes like the server and GUI.
      • Performance Deep Dive: We talked about the need to investigate performance bottlenecks across the stack, including the ECM, SDFormat loading, physics, and rendering.
      • Low-Fidelity Simulation: The idea of better supporting faster-than-real-time simulation was brought up. This could involve improving support for kinematic-only objects or adding a “kinematics mode” that doesn’t require SDF changes.

As always, the meeting notes are available at :classical_building: New Gazebo weekly agenda - Google Docs.

The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2025-10-20T18:00:00Z (See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)

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