Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-05-04

The Gazebo Project Management Committee (PMC) held its weekly meeting on May 4, 2026, covering several key developments for the open-source robotics simulator. A new Google Summer of Code contributor, @C88-YQ, was welcomed to work on scalable multi-robot integration and automated bridging for ROS 2 and Gazebo. The team began brainstorming ideas for OSRA 2026 funding proposals, due by June 30, with early concepts including improved AI tooling, GPU-based parallel workloads, and better canonical examples for ROS + Gazebo integration.

In infrastructure news, the buildfarm showed increased stability ('greenness'), and several software upgrades are rolling out: Zenoh 1.8.0 packages are in prerelease, Ogre 2.3.1 is available with plans for 2.3.3 soon, and work continues on Ubuntu Resolute support. A new performance profiling report is available for review. The PMC also discussed standardizing a backport merge strategy, leaning toward a 'Rebase and Merge' policy for clean backports and 'Squash merge' for conflict-ridden ones. Support for ball joints in Mujoco (gz-physics#967) is under review, and metadata for Ubuntu 26.04 support has started across repositories.