Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-12-01

Hi Gazebo Community!

This week’s meeting was held on 2025-12-01T19:00:00Z and the following is a summary:

  • New agenda items:
    • Discussed supporting USD as a standard simulation asset format for the ROS ecosystem.
    • Reviewed the Gazebo Kura release timeline regarding conflicts with ROSCon 2026; considering moving the release earlier.
    • Noted the launch of the new Robotics Enhancement Proposal (REP) process.
    • Discussed post-migration cleanup for the sdformat.org repository.
    • Investigated why Jenkins DSL jobs are not running automatically after PR merges.
  • Progress updates:
    • Buildfarm status is stable, with work continuing on specific warnings and priority test failures (LogCommandAPI, Ogre integration, etc.).
    • sdformat.org is now built with a static site generator (nanoc), supporting HTTPS and updated URL structures.
    • Investigating performance issues with Dart 6.16 .debs.
    • Completed the relocation of physics files and iterated on the Python shim for ROS Gazebo vendor packages for Jazzy/Kilted.
    • Prototyping Terraform to automate branch protection rules.

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 2025-12-08T19:00:00Z (See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)