Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-05-19

[caguero]

Hi Gazebo Community!

This week’s meeting was held on 2025-05-19T18:00:00Z and the following is a summary:

• Progress updates and agenda:

  • Buildfarm: No new issues since last week. Issue resolved with one of our Mac machines.

  • Zenoh:

    • All gz-transport Zenoh infrastructure is done
    • All Zenoh references are hidden from public headers in:
      • Zenoh - Part 2: Configure zeromq/zenoh and pub sub by caguero · Pull Request #601 · gazebosim/gz-transport · GitHub
      • Zenoh - Part 3: Graph cache pub/sub by caguero · Pull Request #630 · gazebosim/gz-transport · GitHub
    • Fixed a bug in pub/sub. All subscribers are now working.
    • Topic echo also working now.

  • Infra: ROS vendor packages now support Kilted PRs when running release.py

  • Infra: Windows Jenkins agents updated

  • Standalone executables in gz-sim completed,

    • Standalone gz sim executable (Jetty) by j-rivero · Pull Request #2849 · gazebosim/gz-sim · GitHub
    • Fix for GUI wait screen bug in standalone executable by sauk2 · Pull Request #2905 · gazebosim/gz-sim · GitHub

  • All remaining Jetty version bump pull requests have been opened (release-tools#1309)

  • Bazel:

    • Packaging gz-common:
      • freeimage and assimp are now on Bazel Central Registry
      • gdal and ffmpeg will stay out of the bazel build

  • Considering external volunteers to implement the Simulation common interfaces

  • Reminder of policy for adopting generative AI in contributions.

  • Summary of the Fuel/SDFormat web emergency plan.

  • Upcoming brainstorming sessions: ROSCon 2025 and OSRA funding plan.

As always, the meeting notes are available at meeting notes are New Gazebo weekly agenda - Google Docs.

The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2025-06-02T18:00:00Z (See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)