Community Meeting #56 - May 25, 2026 @ 3pm UTC

[robwoolley]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time
  Monday, May 25th, 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
• Jan Vermaete - @vermaete
• Yassine Cherni

Agenda

Announcements

• Wrynose (6.0) has been released as the latest LTS!
• ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Release - May 22nd
• Whinlatter will go end-of-life in May June 2026
• ROSCon 2026 - Toronto, Canada (Sept 22 to 24)
  • Ticket sales begin May 11th: https://roscon.ros.org/2026/
  • Submitted 2 talks for consideration:
    • Oeros: A Linux Distribution Tuned for Robotic Hardware and Edge AI by Rob Woolley
    • A Working Open Source Stack for Space Autonomy: SGL, SpaceROS, PX4, and ATMOS by Ramon Roche, Pedro Roque, and Rob Woolley

Review Actions

Old Business

meta-ros status

• Syncs
  • All supported ROS 2 and Yocto Project releases are up-to-date
  • Humble Sync 2026-05-14 - PRs created, in progress
  • Lyrical Release - PRs created, to be merged next
  • Top priorities fixed but in testing: foonathan-memory, tl-expected, fortran HOSTTOOLS
    *

GitHub Pull Requests

• New Rolling Fixes
  • [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
• [master]{ros2} ament_cmake: add python configurations for class-target #1670
• Desktop fixes; [scarthgap]{common}{ros2}{jazzy} Fix desktop-full build issues #1655

GitHub Issues

• Create recipes for Gazebo releases #1728
• nothing provides tl-expected #1722
• enable-fortran.inc: HOSTTOOLS += gfortran is unnecessary and breaks minimal build hosts #1723
• Add Lyrical Luth to infrastructure scripts #1719
• New Packages for ROS 2 Humble 2026-05-08 #1713

New Business

• Discussed initial work around using colcon test with pytest and Yocto ptest - including variable overrides that were necessary for incorrect paths

Open Discussion

Backlog

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

[robwoolley]

An screenshot of ROS 2 desktop-full variant of OpenEmbedded built with bitbake and running TurtleSim demo on Raspberry Pi OS using Docker.

[vermaete]

Nice!
Which ROS2 release is this and is this already with QT6?

[robwoolley]

This was Scarthgap + Jazzy with Qt5. It should be possible with Qt6 on Rolling (with any Yocto release).