ROS PMC Minutes for January 6, 2026

[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

• No formal decisions as January 6th is a holiday for most everywhere except US.
• [TBD] Formal Decision on rcl::Buffer working group (from Tully)

Regular Business

Buildfarm update

• PTAL Buildfarm Issues Triage Sheet
• ROS Greenness:
  • December report
    • Rolling at 8% greenness
    • rqt_gui_cpp failed for all december → ahcorde taking a look
      • Last merged PR: https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt/pull/337
  • Greenness history
• Issues
  • zenoh_config.cpp gcc, clang, clang-tidy build warning due to get_package_share_directory string deprecation in nightly_linux
• Priorities
  • rosbag2_transport test_recorder_event_notifier expected size mismatch in Jazzy/Kilted/Rolling nightly connext
  • TestBroadcasterAndListener.test_static_broadcaster_and_listener failing in CI repeated jobs
  • Segmentation fault in rclpy test_client and test_service in Kilted](🧑‍🌾 `ros2service.ros2service.test.test_cli.test_cli` failing consistently in Kilted · Issue #1073 · ros2/ros2cli · GitHub) (Scott assigned)

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 - @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 6 - January 13 - @emersonknapp + @InvincibleRMC
• Outgoing rosdistro
  • None

Release Management

• Audrow (Humble)
  • Preparing for Humble sync 2026-01-07 - Packaging and Release Management - Open Robotics Discourse
• Yadu (Rolling)
  • No updates.
• Marco (Jazzy)
  • No updates.
• Scott (Kilted)
  • ros2_control regressed again, hoping for a sync next week

Agenda

• [@KimMcG / @claraberendsen] Windows 11 Transition
  • Two outstanding Questions
    • Do Windows 11 built binaries work on Windows 10?
    • What do we do with distros that we are still maintining but have Windows 10 support?
  • Expect reports on regressions + test failures + warnings incoming
• [@mjcarroll] REP 2000 Updates
• [@tfoote] Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group
  • Working Group Charter
  • We are looking for a PMC Member to Chair the working group
• [@cottsay] RHEL 10 Standup
  • Pending tasks
    • ci.ros2.org support
    • Qt6 Python bindings
    • Drop dependency on pydocstyle?
    • Address FastDDS builds with OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE
    • Uncrustify version mismatch
    • Rviz Tests
• [@claraberendsen] 26.04 Resolute Racoon Standup
  • Release CI canary builds starting on build.ros2.org + ci.ros2.org
• [@mjcarroll] Revisitng Issue Triage (Waffle)