Community Meeting #61 - August 3, 2026 @ 3pm UTC

[robwoolley]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time
  Monday, August 3rd, 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
• Christian Kohn - @chkohn
• Jan Vermaete - @vermaete
• Paul Gottschaldt
• Sandeep Gundlupet Raju - @grsandeep85
• Yassine Cherni @yassine-cherni

Agenda

Announcements

• ROSCon 2026
  • "Oeros: A Linux Distribution Tuned for Robotic Hardware and Edge AI" by Rob Woolley on 2026/09/23
  • "A Working Open Source Stack for Space Autonomy: SGL, SpaceROS, PX4, and ATMOS" by Ramon Roche and Dr. Pedro Roque on 2026/09/24
• ROSCon BE 2026
  • Nivelles, Belgium, November 25th - November 26th, 2026, https://roscon.ros.org/be/2026/

Review Actions

ROS 2 Status

• All syncs of Yocto + ROS 2 are up-to-date with Patch Releases and Syncs
• Last Rolling Sync tag was rolling-2026-04-28
• Rolling is moving to an automatic sync model, full details here: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rethinking-rolling-syncs/56842
• kas qt6.yml has been changed to use 6.11 branch for meta-qt6
• 18 PRs merged, down to 11 open]

Superflore Status

• SPDX: use 'AND' instead of '&' ros-infrastructure/superflore#327
  • Update the LICENSE syntax for Blacksail; should apply conditionally based on target Yocto release

Space ROS Status

• Space ROS Jazzy 2026.07.0 is being released, updates coming soon

Google Summer of Code

• https://shauryarane05.github.io/agl-gsoc-2026-blog/week10.html

GitHub Pull Requests

• [scarthgap]{common}{ros2}{jazzy} Fix desktop-full build issues #1655
  • Merged into Scarthgap, Wrynose, and development branch (Blacksail)
• Wrynose+Lyrical
  • [wrynose]{lyrical} foonathan-memory-vendor: Fix system foonathan-memory detection #1781
  • [wrynose]{lyrical}{ros2} generate-parameter-library, tl-expected: Remove obsolete patch, allow empty package #1778
  • [wrynose]{lyrical} gz-cmake: Add recipe for 5.1.1 #1777
  • Look straight-forward, next in merge queue
• [master]{common} boost: Stop requiring NumPy for Boost.Python #1720
• [master]{ros2} ament_cmake: add python configurations for class-target #1670
• [walnascar]{noetic} Fixed Errors about QA Issue for noetic #1528
• {common} add ROS desktop image #1472
• ros image desktop #1419
• {noetic} tf2: fixing compile with newer boost #1330
• {noetic} Fixing infinite loop with roslogging and python3.12 #1329
• {ros2} Add required ROS2 SDK environment variables #1261

GitHub Issues

Old Business

• ptest infrastructure

New Business

• Discuss adding prefixes to all generated recipes (see https://github.com/robwoolley/oerosproject/blob/main/specs/0006-package-name-prefix.md)
• Review list of project specs: https://github.com/robwoolley/oerosproject/tree/main/specs

Open Discussion

Backlog

[vermaete]

Hi @robwoolley

Just a small story about the SPDX license stuff.
It started with the more strict license string in recent Yocto @master.
I made this small PR: ctu-vras/cras_msgs#2 (comment)
And the maintainer of that repo was so kind to make this discussion: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/what-should-go-in-the-license-tag/56952
It looks some progress here.

PS: see also the fix at superflore for next syncs