I believe you’re referring to the Gazebo Classic End of Life and Migration Survey posted in January 2024. In May 2024, Addisu referenced the results of that survey and the complexity of having version numbers in package names as an inspiration to work on the ROS vendor packages:
From my perspective, we’ve been looking for ways to better integrate Gazebo and ROS for some time (e.g. use of ign-math in Rviz starting in Humble), and the vendor packages idea was brought up as one approach as we were brainstorming on how to package Gazebo for Jazzy since it wasn’t going to be available in upstream Ubuntu Noble. But the feedback we got, especially around the complexity caused by having the major version number in the names of packages, definitely encouraged us to pursue the vendor package idea. So I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who filled out the survey!
So while I wasn’t specifically thinking of the survey when I opened release-tools#1244, it was a follow-up to the vendor packages work and a known pain point for users.