Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-11-17

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Hi Gazebo Community!
This week’s meeting was held on 2025-11-17T19:00:00Z and the following is a summary:

  • Progress updates:

    • PX4 Summit Recap: The team gathered insights from the PX4 community. Notably, Gazebo remains the default and most commonly used simulator for PX4 users. There were also discussions about a new lighter-than-air dynamics plugin contributed by Cloudline and potential improvements for the Gazebo-uORB bridge.
    • Packaging & Build: Dart 6.16.x packages are ready for the prerelease repository. Work is continuing on Python bindings in ROS vendor packages and fixing gz-physics packaging for server-only installations.
    • Physics & Simulation: Active development on Bullet-featherstone joint spring stiffness and collide bitmasks. The team is also reviewing support for Dart mimic joints.

  • New agenda items:

    • Roadmap: Discussed the Gazebo-K Roadmap and assigned point of contacts (POCs) for each work item. Also discussed the secondary roadmap which represents important but non-committed work, including potential community contributions. The goal is for POCs to create Github issues with preliminary designs.
    • 2026 Funding: Brainstormed ideas for the OSRA funding request. Suggestions included making Pixi a first-class citizen or working on a standard way to share assets between simulators.
    • Future Planning: A reminder was set to look into creating a Working Group to discuss the next generation of Gazebo architecture.

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

The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2025-11-24T19:00:00Z (See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)

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Huh? Do you have more to share at this time? :slight_smile:

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My understanding is that will be the charter of the working group to explore this, there isn’t anything particularly committed or concrete at the moment.

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Yes, we plan to create a working group to think about the long term direction of Gazebo. Before that we are planning to do a postmortem survey and discussion on Gazebo-classic within the committers of the project to inform the discussions in the working group.

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