ROS PMC Minutes for January 13th

[mjcarroll]

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda

ROS PMC Business

• Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group Charter
  • A vote will be sent out immediately for approval (requires quorum, otherwise async).
  • @ahcorde to chair the working group, @skye.galaxy to serve as backup contributor.

Regular Business

Buildfarm update

• PTAL Buildfarm Issues Triage Sheet
• Issues
  • No new issues last week!
  • 🧑‍🌾 `launch_testing_ros` freezing some builds without log output · Issue #937 · ros2/launch · GitHub
• Priorities
  • RQT Issues in Rolling
    • Don’t worry about fixing the rqt/rolling/noble combo, as shiboken6 isn’t available (but is available on resolute).
  • rosbag2_transport test_recorder_event_notifier expected size mismatch in Jazzy/Kilted/Rolling nightly connext
    • Mjcarroll to ping rti people about it
  • TestBroadcasterAndListener.test_static_broadcaster_and_listener failing in CI repeated jobs

Waffle note-taker

Waffle is a weekly meeting where maintainers triage incoming issues and pull requests that haven’t been otherwise acted upon. One person per week is assigned to be the “waffle note-taker” to both take notes in the meeting to keep the meeting as efficient as possible.

• January 8 + January 15 - @wjwwood

Rosdistro assignments

Rosdistro is a weekly assignment to monitor incoming issues and pull requests in GitHub - ros/rosdistro: This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution. Two people per week are assigned to be the rosdistro maintainers.

• January 13 - January 20 - @Yadunund + @cottsay
• Outgoing rosdistro
  • None

Release Management

• Audrow (Humble)
  • No updates.
• Yadu (Rolling)
  • Preparing for Rolling Sync 2026-01-16 - Packaging and Release Management - Open Robotics Discourse
• Marco (Jazzy)
  • No updates.
• Scott (Kilted)
  • Preparing for Kilted sync 2026-01-14 - Packaging and Release Management - Open Robotics Discourse

Working Group Updates

• Client Library Working Group
• Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group
• ROSGraph Working Group (unofficial)
  • Took December off, first meeting January 6th
  • Discussing declarative node interfaces
  • Launch documentation as a bg task

Agenda

• [AMT WG] Native Buffers
  • Update on ROS native buffers
  • CY: Specifically would like review with an eye towards backwards compatibility and flexibility such that any 3p can implement their own backend.
  • CY: It has a wider scope (rmw and rosidl) so deep reviews are appreciated.
  • @mjcarroll to coordinate a special session for a deep dive.
• [mjcarroll] Thoughts on Pixi as a co-official way of installing ROS on Linux
  • Discussion: Debate on the stability of “rolling” dependency managers vs. the Red Hat/Debian model.
• [mjcarroll] request for input on Tomoya’s logging feature: [FR] select the logger implementation without rebuilding · Issue #1178 · ros2/rcl · GitHub
• [claraberendsen] Update on Windows 11 transition
  • Kimberly is working on bringing up MSVC 2022 and get rid of warning related to cyclonedds: Windows 11 support · Issue #832 · ros2/ci · GitHub.
  • We can confirm WIn 11 binaries work on Windows 10 as of today.
• [claraberendsen] Resolute 26.04 stand-up
  • Almost finished with the Infrastructure setup
    • Need to deploy repository configuration to repo.ros2.org and we should be able to test.
    • I will open an issue tracker to track what breaks.
• [cottsay] RHEL 10 standup
  • Everything from last week, except:
    • I was able to use xwfb-run to unblock the RViz tests. Didn’t try the visual testing framework, though
    • I believe that Fast-DDS issues were resolved (thanks Miguel!)
    • Early build: https://ci.ros2.org/job/test_ci_linux-rhel/64/