Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-01-12

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Hi Gazebo Community!

This week’s meeting was held on 2026-01-12T19:00:00Z and the following is a summary:

• PMC Business: (No business to report)

• New agenda items:

  • A discussion was held regarding the use of GitHub Copilot for pull request reviews. The consensus is to continue allowing its use for now and re-evaluate if it becomes disruptive.
  • With freeimage being deprecated, a proposal to replace it with a vendored copy of STB is under review (gz-common#725). Making image loading a pluggable codec in the future was also discussed.
  • A proposal was made to move Gazebo OCI images to an official repository to improve discoverability. The gazebosim GitHub organization is being considered as the new location.

• Progress updates (not discussed due to time constraints):

  • Buildfarm: New build warnings and issues on Windows and macOS are being tracked (gz-msgs#544, gz-launch#312, gz-msgs#545, gz-launch#313).
  • The January Gazebo community meeting has been announced.
  • A roadmap for implementing Python documentation for the Gazebo website has been created (docs#663).
  • A server-only installation option for Gazebo is now in the prerelease repository and ready for testing.
  • dart version 6.16 and a new version of gz-physics have been released.
  • There is ongoing discussion about using Pixi as a semi-official method for installing ROS (link).
  • A fix for GetContacts collision IDs in bullet-featherstone has been merged (gz-physics#838).

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

The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2026-01-19T19:00:00Z (See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)