ROS 2 PMC Meeting Minutes for April 29, 2025

[mjcarroll]

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS 2 PMC weekly meeting agenda - April 29, 2025

PMC Business

• No formal business this week.

Ongoing Tasks

• Buildfarm:
  • PTAL: Buildfarm Issues Triage Sheet
  • We have an issue with rmw_cyclonedds_cpp that was originally spotted on RHEL, but has now started appearing in all nightly Linux builds: 🧑‍🌾 rmw_cyclonedds_cpp: `ddsi_xt_type_init_impl with invalid type object` error in Linux · Issue #535 · ros2/rmw_cyclonedds · GitHub
    • This needs to be addressed in order for people not to run into it with CycloneDDS during the testing and tutorial party.
    • @tomoyafujita could not reproduce, @ahcorde has seen it a few times, @cottsay has seen it on RHEL/Fedora, @mjcarroll to look at it.
• Waffle assignments:
  • April 24 + May 1: @MichaelOrlov
• Rosdistro Assignments
  • April 29 - May 6 - @Yadunund + @sloretz
  • Outgoing rosdistro issues: None
• ROS Bosses:
  • Audrow (Humble)
    • Sync done, @christophebedard to act as backup during Audrow’s leave
  • Shane (Noetic)
    • For all Noetic repos, @sloretz is suggesting
      • Close all PRs adding new features
      • Require extra scrutiny on any bugfixes
      • Enable PR jobs if they aren’t currently on
    • All PRs under noetic-desktop-full that were maintained by OSRC folks have been addressed (~70 repos)
    • Third to last noetic sync will be next week
  • Marco (Jazzy)
    • Still in hold for sync
  • Yadu (Rolling)

Kilted Release

• Done
  • Add distro source branches kilted for core repos
  • Add distro to CI
  • Bump all rolling package versions
  • Branch rosdistro off rolling for kilted
• ToDo:
  • Add distro to documentation: Add Kilted to the list of distributions. by mjcarroll · Pull Request #5401 · ros2/ros2_documentation · GitHub
  • Create beta release tag on ros2/ros2
  • Create beta release binaries
    • @cottsay to check regressions across all supported platforms
    • Land a few more package-specific fixes
    • Kick off fat binary package builds today to exercise the process
  • Create test cases for kilted tutorial party
    • @mjcarroll to generate changelog/release notes that we can use to add new test cases from new features.
    • Requirements for Kilted by Yadunund · Pull Request #1560 · osrf/ros2_test_cases · GitHub
  • @Cole is creating pixel art turtlesim icon from release art
  • Announce branch, beta, and tutorial party

Agenda Items

• @emersonknapp feedback on improvements to launch:
  • Add a path join operator for launch: Add a `/` path join operator for `PathJoinSubstitution` by emersonknapp · Pull Request #868 · ros2/launch · GitHub
    • No objections, but note that this is similar to Allows substitutions with Python Standard Path Objects with `PathSubstitutions` by InvincibleRMC · Pull Request #790 · ros2/launch · GitHub
  • Allow actions to take a single text element, rather than an array or struct:
    • Allow `include:` to take a single text element instead of requiring `file:` by emersonknapp · Pull Request #867 · ros2/launch · GitHub
    • No objections
  • General housekeeping around Python launch files in documentation:
    • Streamline Python launchfiles to promote best practices by emersonknapp · Pull Request #5413 · ros2/ros2_documentation · GitHub

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