# Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-07-20

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**Created:** [July 20, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/gazebo-pmc-meeting-minutes-2026-07-20/56808 "2026-07-20T21:10:36Z")\
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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](https://github.com/caguero) has volunteered to represent Gazebo at the Technical Governance Committee (TGC). Thanks to [@scpeters](https://github.com/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](https://osrf.github.io/buildfarm-tools/dashboard/index.html) is now public and updated daily. Please share your feedback on the [Zulip thread](https://openrobotics.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/431890-General/topic/Call.20for.20Feedback.3A.20New.20Buildfarm.20Dashboard/with/610612655).
- **Test Failures** : A new flaky timeout failure in `gz-sim` unit server tests ([gz-sim#3829](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-sim/issues/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](https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/cookbook-jenkins/pull/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](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-transport/pull/896) to simplify service requests by inferring parameter types through discovery and improving one-way service calls.
  - Test infrastructure was refactored on [Ionic](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-transport/pull/899) and [Harmonic](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-transport/pull/900) to support running tests in parallel and replace unreliable sleeps with retry loops, fixing a flaky test issue ([gz-transport#897](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-transport/issues/897)).

- **`gz-math`** : Python bindings for `VolumetricGridLookupField` were merged and backported to [Rotary](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-math/pull/657), [Jetty](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-math/pull/786), [Ionic](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-math/pull/787), and [Harmonic](https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-math/pull/788).

### Documentation

- **Release Naming Process** : A documentation PR has been merged ([gazebosim/docs#704](https://github.com/gazebosim/docs/pull/704)) that outlines the Gazebo release name selection process. [@caguero](https://github.com/caguero) has stepped up to manage the naming process for the upcoming release.
- **Project Cadence** : Draft documentation (not public yet) on [Project Lead Responsibilities](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u-ibo4gKWIjeFDcxsZnqFhsNJ-afBw7GRxbrspcdfy/) 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RpVMkwiKqXKnDjqtkviz4qp73oehivf4Z1x-fTITgZY/).

The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2026-07-27T18:00:00Z  
(See [Open Source Robotics Foundation official events](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=agf3kajirket8khktupm9go748@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=UTC))