OSRA TGC meeting minutes for December, 2025

The Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA) Technical Governance Committee (TGC) convened in December 2025, with major industry players like Intrinsic, NVIDIA, Huawei, and Ekumen in attendance. The meeting minutes, published in March 2026, outline significant strategic shifts for core projects like ROS, Gazebo, and Open-RMF. A key theme was post-ROSCon 2025 planning, where conversations shifted toward scaling deployments and improving fundamentals like packaging and CI times.

For ROS, the committee approved new committers and formed a new ROS Graph working group. Notably, the PMC highlighted a concerning trend where developers are increasingly using Large Language Models (LLMs) as an information source instead of official documentation, creating conceptual gaps. In response, they are considering work for the 2026 funding round to improve CI times and typesupport performance.

The Gazebo simulation project made a major architectural decision, selecting the Bevy game engine (implemented in Rust) for all future rendering development. This follows a productive hackathon at Intrinsic that also explored a MuJoCo physics plugin and system plugin isolation. Meanwhile, the Infrastructure PMC, led by Clara Berendsen, dealt with the annual spike in AWS spot instance pricing following Black Friday and assisted in moving the sdformat.org site to static hosting on GitHub Pages to cut costs.