Community Meeting #57 - June 8, 2026 @ 3pm UTC

[robwoolley]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time
  Monday, June 8th, 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
• Yassine Cherni
• Christian Kohn
• Sandeep Gundlupet Raju
• Sachin Kumar

Agenda

Announcements

• Whinlatter goes EOL on June 15th

Review Actions

Old Business

meta-ros status

• Syncs
  • Sync Scarthgap changes to master
  1. Cherry pick scarthgap on to master (master+jazzy)
  2. Cherry pick spaceros-jazzy to master (master+spaceros-jazzy)
  3. Then: master+rolling
  4. Then cherry-pick master patches to wrynose

GitHub Pull Requests

• New fixups on master+rolling:
  • [master]{common}{rolling} Add ptest infrastructure #1744
  • [master]{rolling} ros-distro: python3-flake8-comprehensions is resolv… #1742
  • [master]{common}{ros2}{rolling} Clean up common Python recipes, geometric-shapes, and fsl #1734
  • [master]{rolling} cras-ros-utils: set the correct license in bbappend #1727
  • [master]{rolling} Vermaete/remove patches #1726
  • [master]{rolling} Vermaete/fuse #1725
  • [master]{common} boost: Stop requiring NumPy for Boost.Python #1720
  • [scarthgap]{common}{ros2}{jazzy} Fix desktop-full build issues #1655

GitHub Issues

• New Packages for Jazzy Sync 2026-06-08 #1747
  • New sync happening soon
• New Packages for Lyrical Sync 2026-06-08 #1746
  • New sync happening soon
• Detecting OpenEmbedded in rospkg #1743
  • Yocto should probably use the FreeDesktop.org approach with /etc/os-release
  • Suggested actions include: add os-release as a package in the meta-ros image recipes as well as the meta-oeros image recipes for on-target use of rospkg; retain ROS_OS_OVERRIDE for rospkg os_detect.py(https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rospkg/blame/master/src/rospkg/os_detect.py#L227) for supporting rosdep and rosdistro: ros-infrastructure/rospkg@bc69259
• Add Lyrical Luth to infrastructure scripts #1719
  • Infrastructure Lyrical is ready to go; will need to generate soon
• nothing provides tl-expected #1722
  • This should have been resolved and pushed. I have a large queue of pending changes pushed so please notify me if it is broken somewhere and I am accidentally sitting with the fix in my queue
• New Packages for ROS 2 Humble 2026-05-08 #1713
  • May sync for Humble should be done soon.
• Create recipes for Gazebo releases #1728
  • The Gazebo releases have names, yet we don't have any meta-packages to track them or the appropriate versions
• enable-fortran.inc: HOSTTOOLS += gfortran is unnecessary and breaks minimal build hosts #1723
  • Still present in Scarthgap: https://github.com/ros/meta-ros/blob/scarthgap/meta-ros-common/conf/ros-distro/include/enable-fortran.inc
  • One of 21+ commits stuck in my local queue, will push ASAP
• python3-flake8-blind-except: two recipes in meta-ros? #1631
  • Duplicate recipes present in meta-ros; need to discuss, but Jan isn't able to attend today

New Business

for incorrect paths

Open Discussion

Backlog

• Package Groups
• Task Logger
• Automated Testing
  • Colcon Tests + Yocto ptest