Community Meeting #66 - November 9th, 2026 @ 4pm UTC

[robwoolley]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time
  Monday, November 9th, 2026 @ 4pm 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 @yassine-cherni
• Trevor Woerner @twoerner
• Sergio Pertuz @sapertuz

Agenda

Announcements

• ROSCon BE 2026
  • Nivelles, Belgium, November 25th - November 26th, 2026, https://roscon.ros.org/be/2026/

Review Actions

• Backlog & WIP Kanban board

meta-ros Status

• Pull Requests: 7 merged, 2 open, 9 active, 9 total
• Issues: 1 new, 26 closed, 27 active, 63 total
• Excluding merges, 4 authors have pushed 430 commits to master and 1330 commits to all branches.
• On master, 2264 files have changed and there have been 7,451 additions and 1,845 deletions
• Up-to-date with monthly syncs for all supported Yocto Project and ROS 2 releases
• [Added new packages to supported[(https://github.com/ros/meta-ros/commit/f48b64b15f13bb929a35140c15126e7930a4e2a5)
  (eg. apriltag-ros, geometry2, geometry-tutorial, gps-umd, roboplan*, ros2-controllers, rosbag2, ros-gz, ur) * no roboplan on Humble
• Restored license-exists and license-format QA checks across all supported combinations and pushed fixes for QA warnings and errors

Space ROS Status

• Jazzy 2026.10 release Release Space ROS 2026.10.0 space-ros/space-ros#437
  • Rob to generate Space ROS release with mash

Automotive Grade Linux / Google Summer of Code

• Project has completed successfully with merge requests to AGL
  • [The final blog post is here with screenshots and photos[(https://shauryarane05.github.io/agl-gsoc-2026-blog/)

GitHub Pull Requests

• {jazzy} topic-tools, mrt-cmake-modules: Add Upstream-Status #1886
  • Excellent catch of a previously fixed package that escaped testing, need to also add autoware_core and lanelet2 to the supported packagegroups
• [master]{rolling} replay-testing: use env python3 as shebang for entry points #1887
  • Great new package, need to add replay-testing to supported packagegroup
• {jazzy} v4l2-camera: Backport fix_warning removal and compiler warning ignore #1888
  • Another great find, v4l2-camera to the supported packagegroup
• [master]{ros2} ament_cmake: add python configurations for class-target #1670
  • The ament_cmake build type should potentially inherit python3targetconfig, however there is a report of this conflicting with the nativesdk class - further investigation needed

GitHub Issues

• {jazzy} topic-tools and mrt-cmake-modules patches lack Upstream-Status #1885
  • Issue for {jazzy} topic-tools, mrt-cmake-modules: Add Upstream-Status #1886

Old Business

• meta-ros: Oeros Container Images

  • Oeros Containers for amd64 and aarch64 pushed to GHCR, tested, and looking for feedback: https://github.com/orgs/oerosproject/packages?repo_name=meta-oeros
  • The container images based on variants are tested for basic functionality
  • The extended container images are available for feedback
    • (eg. ci, sdk-target, rviz,foxglove-bridge, rosbridge, realsense, simulation-headless, turtlebot3-*, zenoh-router, sdk-cross)
    • See the container specification for details

• meta-ros: Layer Audit: https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-ros/tree/audit-remediation/docs

  • Report: https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-ros/blob/audit-remediation/docs/meta-ros-layer-audit-2026-08.md

• meta-ros: ROS World builds / skip groups: https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-ros/commits/wip-ros-world-fixes/

  • packagegroup-ros2--supported : curated list of packages built for a distro for every sync
  • packagegroup-ros-world-bb : includes generated variable ${ROS_SUPERFLORE_GENERATED_WORLD_PACKAGES}
  • Work is to iterate over ros-world to fix simple build failures and add recipes with complicated failures to a "skip-group"

• meta-ros: SDK Documentation

  • Add documentation and automated tests for SDK and on-target colcon support
  • New colcon extension: https://github.com/smarobix/smarobix-colcon-buildx

• meta-oeros: Support for Edge AI

  • Review the bitbake-setup JSON configuration for Edge AI boards:
  • Review the experimental proposal for adding Edge AI support to OEROS: https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-oeros/blob/feature/edgeai-intel-robotics-ai-suite/docs/edgeai.md
  • https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-oeros/tree/feature/edgeai/conf
  • feature/edgeai-intel-robotics-ai-suite extends feature/edgeai and also adds Wrynose+Jazzy to Wrynose+Jazzy and Master+Rolling
    • https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-oeros/tree/feature/edgeai-intel-robotics-ai-suite/conf/registry/configurations

• {lyrical} ament-cmake-ros: Remove runtime native dep on rmw-test-fixture-implementation

  • https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-ros/tree/remove-rmw-test-fixture

New Business

• Work to convert kas configuration into oe-fragments usable by kas and bitbake-setup
• meta-ros / meta-oeros: bitbake-setup OE Config Fragments
  • Experiment with abstracting Yocto Layer information and OE Config Fragments that can be ingested by both kas and bitbake-setup: https://github.com/robwoolley/meta-ros/tree/meta-ros-build-fragments
  • SDK, container, and devcontainer generation

Open Discussion

• Possible areas of collaboration with Fedora Robotics community: * Alternative packaging for GUI applications
• @vermaete Asked about future plans for ROS 1, specifically about removing meta-ros-common
  • @robwoolley proposed we separate meta-ros-common recipes into meta-ros1 and meta-ros2 as a first step to removing ROS 1
  • Proposal to revisit this discussion at a future meeting
• Flatpak, Appimage, Toolbx, et cetera
• Discussed follow-up questions with ROS PMC about
  • Future plans for updating package.xml to use SPDX license identifiers
  • Status on plans for Rolling?
    * Discussed changes to Super Flore to generate recipes with updated changes to SRC_URI to document the pinned SRCREV with the release tag they correspond to

Backlog

[vermaete]

@robwoolley : about the ROS1. Okay to do this for Master and Blacksail only?

[vermaete]

I think this one is ready to go: #1794