The meeting minutes for the regular meeting of the Technical Governance Committee held on the 22nd of October, 2024, were approved in the November meeting and are now available in the official minutes repository. You can find the complete minutes here.
The TGC received the usual project and technical committee updates, including the release of Gazebo Ionic, collaboration between Open-RMF and Gazebo to include Open-RMF functionality in the Gazebo Ionic demonstration world, and notice of the Infrastructure project preparing to move to Ubuntu 24.04.
In existing business, the Open-RMF PMC made a proposal to move the Nexus project under the purview of the Open-RMF PMC, due to the overlap in developers and the complementary nature of the features. The TGC agreed to make this recommendation to the OSRF Board.
In new business, the TGC discussed the pros and cons of versioning the data stored in rosbags, and of OSRF projects adopting Bazel. No decisions were made.
The next TGC meeting will take place on the 19th of December. The minutes of the November meeting should be approved in that meeting and posted publicly shortly thereafter.
Why don’t you bring this topic to the forum? You will remember that when I said the current build system and tools are not incapable of developing production-grade systems, many community members tried to convince me that the ROS tooling is indeed the greatest and that they are happy to use it. You need to convince them of such a change if you expect contributions.
However, I am concerned about Google’s influence regarding the Bazel choice. The TGC includes far too many members from the same company (Intrinsic) who are organically connected to the Bazel project. This would be a question that must be answered explicitly.
Besides, since you don’t have any dedicated TGC representation from academia, it would be nice to fill some seats like Developer Advocate and Support Member Representative with (young) academic members who didn’t participate in these activities previously. Preferably outside the US. Fifty bucks is still too high for many robotics enthusiasts worldwide, especially when it returns no benefit. These questions must raised constantly by their representative.
Definitely, it would help if you had some fresh people and ideas.
Thanks for the clarification. Indeed I was surprised to hear about such a new proposal. My expectation was nothing new could ever come with this composition.