# ROS PMC Minutes for November 03, 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Projects\ **Created:** [November 3, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-pmc-minutes-for-november-03-2026/59490 "2026-11-03T16:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![ahcorde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/ahcorde/32/36216_2.png) [@ahcorde](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/ahcorde)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-pmc-minutes-for-november-03-2026/59490/1 "2026-11-03T16:54:58Z")

The [ROS PMC](https://osralliance.org/staging/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ros_project_charter.pdf) meeting for this week was on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The notes from the meeting are available at [ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGXYp33N00ZJtilsRzfClFXcSyMa4QKVNmA03Lx9D7w/edit?tab=t.0). ## ROS PMC Business - 📝 Vote on the meeting hour: should the PMC meeting stay at the current time or go back to the normal schedule? PMC members, please vote - ⚠ The recent committer vote did not get enough participation, so @ahcorde will restart it this week (week of Nov 2, 2026). - Each candidate will come with more context on who they are and why they are nominated. - The charter limits asynchronous votes to 1 week. Forms are preferred for several decisions at once, and email for a single item. - [@skye.galaxy] 🆕 Proposed Maurice Alexander Purnawan (mini-1235) as a new committer, scoped to rclcpp. Maurice joins the candidates in the restarted vote. - 📝 @cottsay will send out the vote to end of life Kilted. ## Regular Business ### Buildfarm update The buildfarm builds and tests ROS packages across all supported distributions and platforms. This section covers new issues, current priorities, and infrastructure changes that affect maintainers. - 🆕 Issues: - [rmw\_connextdds#266](https://github.com/ros2/rmw_connextdds/issues/266): intermittent transform lookup failure after time reset in Connext nightly builds. The issue reports failures on 62.5% of Lyrical and 3.57% of Rolling builds over 15 days. - [rclpy#1719](https://github.com/ros2/rclpy/issues/1719): flaky async node, service, and client tests timing out after 120 seconds (reopened). The backport to Lyrical is missing, and the Lyrical PR job (Lpr) is failing. - ⚠ Priorities: - 📝 PTAL [Buildfarm Issues Dashboard](https://osrf.github.io/buildfarm-tools/dashboard/index.html) (16 open issues). - ✅ Around 12 issues were closed during the last week. Thanks! ### 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. - [Baffle maker](https://asymingt.github.io/baffle_maker/) - Oct 29, 2026 - @skye.galaxy - 📅 Nov 5, 2026 - @skye.galaxy ### [Rosdistro assignments](https://github.com/ros/rosdistro) Rosdistro is a weekly assignment to monitor incoming issues and pull requests in [GitHub - ros/rosdistro](https://github.com/ros/rosdistro). Two people per week are assigned to be the rosdistro maintainers. - Oct 27, 2026 - Nov 3, 2026 - @mjcarroll and @ahcorde - 📅 Nov 3, 2026 - Nov 10, 2026 - @mjcarroll and @ahcorde - [@christophebedard] ⚠ CC licenses in [rosdistro#53263](https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/53263#issuecomment-6585365802): the package contains files under CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 and CC-BY-SA-4.0. - CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 is noncommercial and non-derivative, which is not allowed. - CC-BY-SA-4.0 looks like a typical copyleft license, but it is not OSI-approved. CC-BY and CC0 are acceptable. - We could request individual decisions, but excluding all CC files is simpler for now. - Excluding them through CMake is not enough, because source debs would still include them. The next thing to try is a patch in the release repo. If that is too risky, we will have to request that the files be deleted from the repo. - OSRA needs to come up with an IP and licensing policy. ### [Release Management](https://osrf.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/526029-ROS-PMC/topic/Release.20Management.20Thread) Release Management tracks the status of upcoming releases, patches, and syncs across the active ROS distributions. - @christophebedard (Humble) - No update. - @yadunund (Rolling) - No update. - Marco A. Gutiérrez (Jazzy) - No update. - @cottsay (Kilted) - Still tracking regressions, with a rebuild in progress. 📅 Targeting a sync late in the week of Nov 2, 2026. - ⚠ Kilted goes EOL on Nov 30, 2026. - @sloretz (Lyrical) - ⚠ About 15 regressed packages are delaying the sync. Still waiting. ## Working Group Updates - ROS Office Hours - 📅 Next Meeting: Friday, Nov 6, 2026, hosted by @skye.galaxy - Client Library Working Group (@alsora) - Last Meeting: Oct 30, 2026 - 📅 Next Meeting: Nov 13, 2026 - Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group (@ahcorde) - Last Meeting: Oct 28, 2026 - 📅 Next Meeting: Nov 11, 2026 - ROSGraph Working Group (@emersonknapp) - SIG Physical AI (@yadunund) - Last Meeting: Oct 30, 2026 ## Agenda - [@ahcorde] [Help us make image\_transport and point\_cloud\_transport better for Makoa!](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/help-us-make-image-transport-and-point-cloud-transport-better-for-makoa/58979) - 📝 Please review and comment on the proposals from Martin Pecka. - [@clalancette] Same-participant matching in Connext ([rmw\_connextdds#265](https://github.com/ros2/rmw_connextdds/pull/265)) - If a node creates a publisher and a subscription and then publishes right away, do you expect that message to _always_ reach the subscription, given that both are in the same participant? - `rmw_connextdds` does not guarantee local matching before the publish happens, and matching can take up to 16 milliseconds locally. - Fast DDS, Cyclone DDS and Zenoh complete local matching before subscription creation returns. - @clalancette will keep working with the Connext maintainers on the PR. - [@cottsay] New policy for distributing rosdep review burden to platform maintainers - 📅 @cottsay will write up the policy and better wording by Nov 10, 2026. - [@ahcorde] Roadmap for the upcoming release - Priorities so far: build times and code cleanup, plus rclpy improvements and logging system updates. - 📝 Please suggest more roadmap items.