ROS PMC Minutes for March 17, 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 updates.

Regular Business

Buildfarm update

Buildfarm is the infrastructure that builds and tests ROS packages across different platforms and architectures.

• Issues
• Priorities

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.

• Mar 19, 2026 + Mar 26, 2026 - @andrew_symington

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.

• Mar 10 - Mar 17 - @christophebedard + @cottsay
• Mar 17, 2026 - Mar 24, 2026 - @mjcarroll + @InvincibleRMC
• Outgoing rosdistro
  • Discussion on deprecating 2 pip shadowing packages. Approved!

Release Management

Release management is the process of coordinating the release of new versions of ROS distributions, including synchronization of packages and security updates.

• @christophebedard (Humble)
  • Humble sync requested: New Humble sync
• @yadunund (Rolling)
  • No updates.
• @marcogg (Jazzy)
  • Potential bad Jazzy sync? Issue #50285
• @cottsay (Kilted)
  • New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2026-03-12

Working Group Updates

• Client Library Working Group (@alsora)
  • Meeting this week (Friday, March 20).
  • Continuing work on C++ events executor and Python AsyncIO executor.
• Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group (@ahcorde)
  • Meeting last week (Wednesday, March 11) and this week (Wednesday, March 18).
  • Continuing work on reviewing/merging rcl::Buffer changes.
• ROSGraph Working Group (@emersonknapp)
  • Meeting this week (Tuesday, March 17).
  • News: NoDL repositories moved to ros-tooling org!
• Lyrical Release Working Group (@sloretz)
  • Met this week (Monday, March 16). Notes
  • Next important date: Mon. April 6, 2026 - Alpha + RMW freeze.
  • Ubuntu Resolute / ROS Lyrical Dockerfile available here.

Agenda

• GSoC 2026 (until April 21st)
  • Official Schedule | Project Wiki | Tracking Spreadsheet
  • Key dates: Student applications due March 31.
  • Please add project proposals to the wiki ASAP and triage issues for “Good First Issue” tags.
• Sync Hold Automation [@andrew_symington]
  • Proposing a less manual way of labeling distributions as held for sync on rosdistro.
  • Agreement to store sync state in index.yaml and separate distribution cache generation work.
  • PR #50112 | PR #42984
• Transition to ROS Distro for Bazel [@andrew_symington]
  • Discussion on moving away from ros2.repos files for Bazel in favor of the ROS distro index and ROS install generator.
  • Agreement that ROS distro should serve as the source of truth for package versions.
• Team Updates [@emersonknapp]
  • @skye.galaxy is joining Polymath Robotics!

Action Items

@everyone

• Triage issues with “Good First Issue” tags for new project contributors and GSoC candidates.

@mjcarroll

• Flag Python 3.14 AsyncIO changes to @nadavelkabets for async I/O executor testing.
• Investigate ros2topic.pytest.missing_result failure in Kilted and Rolling Connext.
• Share TGC updates by Monday so others can add input before next week’s TGC meeting.

@christophebedard

• Review and respond to Humble sync request on Discourse regarding RCL pi regression fix.

@ahcorde

• Continue seeking reviews on Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group PRs with a 2-week deadline to merge.