ROS PMC meeting minutes 2025-02-18

[mjcarroll]

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda

This week we discussed:

• Rosdep review questions
  • What to do in the case that an “alternative platform” key appears as automated feedback in rosdistro? add 'python3-wheel' by christianrauch · Pull Request #44501 · ros/rosdistro · GitHub
    • Conclusion: When possible, please ask contributors to add rules for other operating systems. We aren’t directly supporting these (like opensuse), but if there is a rule that matches, then it’s low cost to get it in at the time of the original rosdep PR
  • Does adding a package break API/ABI and justify a major version bump? (rmw: 7.7.0-1 in 'rolling/distribution.yaml' [bloom] by ahcorde · Pull Request #44482 · ros/rosdistro · GitHub)
    • Conclusion: In this case, we are okay, as adding the package doesn’t incur changes. In downstream packages (rmw implementations), we likely want to bump majors to reflect the new dependency.
• Kilted Development Updates
  • Progress on rmw_zenoh
  • Progress on fastdds name change and 3.2 bump
  • Progress on Conda
    • We are awaiting a meeting with infra and all ROS bosses before merging as it will have packaging impacts to all released distributions.
• Agenda
  • Recursive node parameter update (Cannot create subscription/publisher with QoS override parameter via parameter callback. · Issue #2741 · ros2/rclcpp · GitHub)
  • Managed transform listener concept: (Introduce managed transform buffer to geometry2 · Issue #758 · ros2/geometry2 · GitHub)
  • Collisions between launch arguments: (argument collision in included files (xml and yaml) · Issue #815 · ros2/launch · GitHub)
  • Changing geometry_msgs/PoseStampedArray to nav_msgs/Goals (Move geometry_msgs/PoseStampedArray to nav_msgs/Goals by tfoote · Pull Request #269 · ros2/common_interfaces · GitHub)

The next ROS PMC meeting will be on February 25, 2025: Open Source Robotics Foundation official events.

The ROS PMC meets on a weekly basis to discuss details of the ROS 2 core. This is a working meeting, where only members of the ROS PMC and associated committers may speak. However, anyone is welcome to join as an observer. Come and find out how ROS 2 is developed!

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[christian]

@mjcarroll

When possible, please ask contributors to add rules for other operating systems. We aren’t directly supporting these (like opensuse), but if there is a rule that matches, then it’s low cost to get it in at the time of the original rosdep PR

Could these suggestions please automatically be added as a PR comment? I only know of this package because it was pointed out by someone. I had to search through multiple passed CI checks, so see the original “Suggesting ‘python3-wheel’ package for opensuse”. Unless you know where to look, this will go unnoticed.

[mjcarroll]

The bot should be putting the checks in-line like this:

I suppose that doesn’t necessarily ping you to reveal that there is some action that needs to be taken.

@cottsay can we make the bot a little noisier about the “other platforms” category to save an iteration or two?