ROS PMC Minutes for March 3, 2026

The ROS Project Management Committee (PMC) convened on March 3, 2026, to manage the sprawling open-source robotics framework. The meeting covered operational updates, including a Daylight Savings Time shift for future meetings, and tackled significant technical debt. The Lyrical Release Working Group, led by @sloretz, finalized timeline adjustments, moving the Kilted release one day earlier and adding a formal Rolling migration date. The team issued a call for help on three fronts: resolving Ubuntu Resolute issues, reviewing critical Qt6 support pull requests (specifically ros2/ros2#1798), and investigating persistent test_launch_ros hangs on Windows 11. This systematic triage is crucial for maintaining the stability of the four active distributions: Humble, Rolling, Jazzy, and Kilted.

On the technical front, the PMC is investigating two high-priority build system failures. @mjcarroll is diagnosing isolation problems in the Kilted and Rolling distributions affecting ros2cli tools like ros2doctor and ros2topic (issue #1129). Simultaneously, @claraberendsen is working on rmw_zenoh_cpp test failures on Windows (issue #869), a critical issue for cross-platform middleware reliability. The community also reviewed a proposal from @wjwwood to migrate the `resource_retriever_service`—a component extracted from RViz for asset retrieval via ROS services—into the official ros2 GitHub organization, which would decouple it from RViz and promote wider adoption. Furthermore, performance testing saw advancement with the introduction of the `ros2-benchmark-container` for standardized rclcpp performance testing across different RMW implementations, though debates continue on securing consistent hardware for longitudinal tracking.