ROS PMC Minutes for January 27, 2026

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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
    • Working group creation passes with 13 “+1” Votes
    • Next Steps:
      • @gbiggs to create Zulip channel for working group
      • @ahcorde to schedule first meeting
  • PSA: We will have an upcoming vote to create the Lyrical release working group

Regular Business

Buildfarm update

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.

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.

Release Management

Working Group Updates

  • Client Library Working Group
    • Meeting last Friday primarily focused on Python asyncio executor implementation
  • Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group (unofficial)
    • Meeting last Friday to dive in on rcl::Buffer implementation
  • ROSGraph Working Group
    • PSA: Meeting time has been moved to noon Pacific to accommodate Australian contingent

Agenda

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