Robot Software Group Meets to Keep Your Future Robot Safe
Decisions made here could affect the robots in your home and workplace.
The ROS PMC meeting for this week was Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and the notes are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda. The notes cover buildfarm builds and tests of ROS packages across all supported distributions and platforms, plus new issues, current priorities, and infrastructure changes that affect maintainers.
Waffle is a weekly meeting where maintainers triage incoming issues and pull requests that haven’t been otherwise acted upon; one person per week is assigned as the waffle note-taker to take notes and keep the meeting as efficient as possible. Rosdistro is a weekly assignment to monitor incoming issues and pull requests in GitHub - ros/rosdistro, with two people per week assigned as rosdistro maintainers.
Release Management tracks the status of upcoming releases, patches, and syncs across the active ROS distributions. The notes also include Working Group Updates.
- ROS is software that runs many robots, and weekly meetings help keep it reliable.
- Volunteers sort through bug reports and code changes to fix problems quickly.
- Regular testing and release planning mean safer, more dependable robots for everyone.
Why It Matters
These meetings help ensure robots in factories, homes, and hospitals work safely and reliably.