ROS PMC Minutes for November 25, 2025

[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

• TGC Meeting Next Week (December 4, 2025)
  • @mjcarroll and @ahcorde attending as ROS representatives
• 2026 OSRA Funding Proposals coming
  • Agenda item down below

Regular Business

Buildfarm update

• PTAL Buildfarm Issues Triage Sheet
• Issues
  • Jazzy and humble ConnextDDS builds tests failing due to timeout waiting for process to finish
• Priorities (24 issues open present in the spreadsheet)
  • rmw_connextdds support message making ROS2 CLI tests fail (Michael assigned)
  • sros2.test.sros2.commands.security.verbs.test_generate_policy_no_nodes.test_generate_policy_no_nodes failing consistently in Kilted CI (Michael assigned)
  • ros2service.ros2service.test.test_cli.test_cli failing consistently in Kilted (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.

• Nov 27 - Thanksgiving Holiday (US)

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.

• Nov 25 - Dec 2 - @ahcorde
• Outgoing rosdistro
• REP144 (naming): apriltag_hitch_estimation: 0.0.1-1 in 'humble/distribution.yaml' [bloom] by li9i · Pull Request #48735 · ros/rosdistro · GitHub
  • Conclusion: Name should be hitch_estimation_apriltag rather than apriltag_ just to be clear that the package isn’t part of apriltag.

Release Management

• Audrow (Humble)
  • New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-11-24
• Yadu (Rolling)
  • Aim for rolling sync this Friday
• Marco (Jazzy)
  • No updates.
• Scott (Kilted)
  • No updates.

Agenda

• OSRA Funding Proposals for 2026
  • What do we as the ROS project need to spend money on?
  • [@sloretz] Is there any way that we can throw money at our CI times?
    • Create an equivalent of “PR jobs” for Windows via pixi, to reduce dependency on ci.ros2.org
    • Create a way of specifying downstream dependencies of a package so that only those packages need to be rebuilt/retested
    • Create a meta-project that can analyze and implement possible solutions
    • Decouple linting from the rest of the build/test process
  • @MiguelCompany Reworking type support for performance
    • (follow-on from @hidmic’s discussion
  • [@cottsay] Portable message generation tooling
    • User Journey: Generate messages in pure python packages (or meson, bazel, rust, etc)
  • [emerson] I want to do what the buildfarm does but in github
    • GitHub - colcon/colcon-ros-buildfarm: Extensions for colcon to utilize ros_buildfarm to build system packages in containers
• [@JM_ROS ]Feedback from german roscon, people can’t find meetings (only get discourse posts).
  • [Shane] we should update the governance page
  • [kat] maybe something like Luma