Community Meeting #53 - April 13, 2026 @ 3pm UTC

[robwoolley]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time
  Monday, April 13th, 2026 @ 3pm UTC, (5pm CEST / 11am EDT / 8am PDT)
• Google Meet
  Video call link: https://meet.google.com/bxp-triq-yvr
  Dial-in numbers: https://meet.google.com/tel/fom-qmmu-nnw?pin=8216926365973

Attendees

• Name (Organization) - GitHub username
• Rob Woolley (Wind River) - @robwoolley
• Trevor Woerner - @twoerner
• Jan Vermaete - @vermaete
• Sandeep Gundlupet Raju - @grsandeep85
• Yassine Cherni - @yassine-cherni

Agenda

Announcements

• Kirkstone will go end-of-life in April 2026
• Whinlatter will go end-of-life in May 2026
• Wrynose will be released in May 2026
• ROSCon Presentation proposal submission deadline: April 26th, 2026
• Space ROS is being built using GitHub Actions by Space Grade Linux: https://github.com/elisa-tech/meta-sgl/actions

Review Actions

Old Business

meta-ros status

• Syncs
  • Plan is to update all syncs prior to making Kirkstone and Whinlatter end-of-life
  • Rolling 2026-02-25
    • Superflore Update for kirkstone : rolling : 2026-02-25 #1684
    • Superflore Update for scarthgap : rolling : 2026-02-25 #1683
    • Superflore Update for whinlatter : rolling : 2026-02-25 #1681
    • Superflore Update for master : rolling : 2026-02-25 #1680
  • Jazzy 2026-04-09
    • Not yet available
  • Kilted 2026-03-12
    • New Packages for ROS 2 Kilted 2026-03-12 #1673
    • In progress
  • Humble 2026-03-29
    • New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2026-03-29 #1682
    • To do next

GitHub Pull Requests

• [scarthgap]{jazzy} ros2-control and ros2-canopen fixes #1678
  • Thanks to @chkohn and @graceagrace for the fixes to ros2_control!
  • To be merged to support ros2_control and canopen in Scarthgap and other ROS 2 Distros
  • Will add both to regular regression testing
• Move opencv bbappend to meta-ros1-noetic #1675
  • opencv PACKAGECONFIG adds "dnn"
    • Seems specific to Noetic. Will investigate moving to ROS 1 only but adding the PACKAGECONFIG to meta-oeros.

GitHub Issues

• yocto nav2-msgs build error #1685
  • Missing rosidl-core-generators build dependency for nav2-msgs

New Business

• Introducing the OpenEmbedded ROS Reference Distribution (meta-oeros)
• Demo of new bitbake-setup workflow for Yocto LTS "Wrynose" with ROS LTS "Lyrical Luth"
  • Following the Yocto documentation: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/dev/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-environment-setup.html

   git clone https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake

   curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robwoolley/meta-oeros/refs/heads/master/conf/registry/configurations/oeros-master-rolling.conf.json

   ./bitbake/bin/bitbake-setup init --non-interactive \
        oeros-master-rolling.conf.json \
        oeros-master-rolling machine/qemux86-64

   . ./bitbake-builds/oeros-master-rolling/build/init-build-env

   # Due to a recent change in wic, you temporarily will have to move the wic directory until the layers update
   mv ../layers/meta-raspberrypi/wic ../layers/meta-raspberrypi/files/
   mv ../layers/meta-virtualization/wic ../layers/meta-virtualization/files/

   bitbake ros-image-core

• Qt6 Support
  • meta-ticket: Support Qt6 ros2/ros2#1798
  • Work-in-progress PR for Master+Rolling: Work-in-Progress: Qt6 Support #1686

Open Discussion

• Suggestion to move the relevant PACKAGECONFIG lines from meta-oeros to dynamic layers in meta-ros
• Automated CI testing
  • Use of ptest with meta-ros? None today, but would be a great enhancement to combine with colcon tests
  • Use of automated boot testing of hardware in CI? None today, but would be great to put in DMZ for public boot tests

[robwoolley]

The link to the new AMD EDF layer was shared by @grsandeep85 during the meeting: https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-amd-edf