Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-07-20

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Hi Gazebo Community!

This week’s meeting was held on 2026-07-20T18:00:00Z and the following is a summary:

PMC Business

• @caguero has volunteered to represent Gazebo at the Technical Governance Committee (TGC). Thanks to @scpeters for his work as the outgoing representative!

New agenda items

• Dashboard Consolidation Strategy: Discussed consolidating various project dashboards (such as the backports tracking dashboard and the legacy gz-dashboard repository) into a centralized repository under the gazebosim GitHub organization, utilizing a subdirectory structure. The team also discussed future plans to integrate automated commit analysis to help identify which pull requests require a release.

Updates

Infrastructure & Buildfarm

• Buildfarm Dashboard: The new Buildfarmer Dashboard is now public and updated daily. Please share your feedback on the Zulip thread.
• Test Failures: A new flaky timeout failure in gz-sim unit server tests (gz-sim#3829) is being investigated.
• Maintenance & Upgrades:
  • A Jenkins upgrade is planned for this week to apply security fixes and install the timeout plugin (see ros-infrastructure/cookbook-jenkins#13).
  • Terraform updates are being executed to migrate branch protection rules from noble to resolute for all repositories.
  • Release repositories are being prepared with new resolute folders to support the Rotary and Jetty branches.
  • The MuJoCo Debian package is ready and will be added to the pre-release repository.

Package Updates

• gz-transport:
  • Updates were merged to the service CLI tool in Rotary to simplify service requests by inferring parameter types through discovery and improving one-way service calls.
  • Test infrastructure was refactored on Ionic and Harmonic to support running tests in parallel and replace unreliable sleeps with retry loops, fixing a flaky test issue (gz-transport#897).
• gz-math: Python bindings for VolumetricGridLookupField were merged and backported to Rotary, Jetty, Ionic, and Harmonic.

Documentation

• Release Naming Process: A documentation PR has been merged (gazebosim/docs#704) that outlines the Gazebo release name selection process. @caguero has stepped up to manage the naming process for the upcoming release.
• Project Cadence: Draft documentation (not public yet) on Project Lead Responsibilities was shared to detail weekly, monthly, and yearly project cadences to help distribute tasks more evenly across the PMC.

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

The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2026-07-27T18:00:00Z
(See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)