OE ROS Roadmap Planning

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1	4/26/2025	Priority	Category	Project	Title	Notes	Comments
2		A	Community	Collaboration	Rebase from meta-scipy to meta-python-ai
3		A	Community	Collaboration	Create formal documentation for ROS with OE	eg. contribute to docs.ros.org
4		A	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Stand up public GitLab CI/CD instance
5		A	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Add storage to CI/CD	Add S3 bucket; Integrate meta-demo-ci (tegra-demo-distro/layers/meta-demo-ci at master · OE4T/tegra-demo-distro)
6		A	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Hash Equivalence Server	Set up custom server or use Yoctos?
7		A	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Generate build history and buildstats
8		A	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Write Terraform/OpenTofu scripts to set up secure runners	Bastion host, storage, security groups, etc. *Do rough calculations on costs involved with providing binary artifacts (eg. what files should be provided, which boards, cost per download, login required?, retention, CDN?) See NixOS as an example of the problem to avoid: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672
9		A	Infrastructure	Testing	Enable automated testing (eg. ptest)	eg. ptest, and colcon test with SDK
10		A	Infrastructure	Testing	Implement ptest and runqemu testing with testimage recipe
11		A	UX/DX	General	Add prefix to package names (eg. ros-rolling-<BPN>)
12		A	UX/DX	Pre-built images	Enable hardware acceleration for Raspberry Pi 4/5 (VC4 and V3D)
13		A	UX/DX	Tools	Build devcontainer with SDK
14		A	UX/DX	Tools	Remote development with physical target
15		B	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Add Error Reports	Set up error report server; add documentation on submitting errors; submit errors from CI/CD
16		B	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Automate recipe version updates	Recipe auto-upgrade helper? auto-upgrade-helper - Automatic Recipe Upgrade Helper
17		B	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Automated reviews	Create an action to review PRs that modify the generated recipes or submitted Superflore results eg. https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/.github/workflows/reviewer.yaml
18		B	Architecture	Orchestration	Create containers with bitbake
19		B	Community	Collaboration	Add support for Turtlebot3
20		B	Community	Collaboration	Contribute common Python dependencies to meta-python
21		B	Community	Collaboration	Research the work done by Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) to integrate with meta-ros
22		B	Community	Collaboration	Investigate work being done by SpaceROS and how to create a SpaceROS image with meta-ros
23		B	Infrastructure	Dependencies	Look in the common layers for recipes that need upreving (eg. meta-ros/meta-/recipes-//.bb)	Related to upstreaming Python recipes to meta-python
24		B	Infrastructure	Licensing	Extend Superflore with SPDX support	Figure out how to add the SPDX attribute to the packages.xml file (according to schema) and have it detected by superflore
25		B	Infrastructure	Licensing	Add license detection to Superflore	eg. similar concept to Yocto but written to be Apache compatible
26		C	Community	Collaboration	Work with upstream to add SPDX attribute to packages.xml
27		B	UX/DX	Pre-built images	Customize LXQt desktop	eg. theme, icons, menus, wallpaper
28		B	UX/DX	Tools	Run GUI tools in container
29		B	UX/DX	Tools	Implement using runqemu for ROS development and testing	eg. add QEMU variables to relevant BSPs and document workflows
30		B	UX/DX	Tools	Investigate using ROS devcontainers and/or Rocker for development
31		B	UX/DX	Tools	Investigate how to containerize ROS nodes and create container images using OE
32		B	Community	Collaboration	Create a SpaceROS package group
33		C	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Automatic triggers for external events	eg. rosdistro/ros changes, discourse posts, etc
34		C	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Automatic labels	Add a labeller for commits * Based on the layer changed: * eg. https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/.github/workflows/labeler.yaml https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/.github/labeler-config.yaml
35		C	Infrastructure	CI/CD	Comment on reviews for EOL Yocto or ROS distros	Comment on PRs with an end-of-life label: https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/.github/mergify.yml
36		C	Community	Collaboration	Add real-time profile for ROS Real-Time Community Group	eg. https://github.com/ros-realtime
37		C	Community	Collaboration	Add aerial profile for Aerial Community Group
38		C	Community	Collaboration	Build a robot demo for the OpenEmbedded booth
39		C	Community	Collaboration	Create a 1-day beginning workshop for the OSS Summit on using ROS and OE
40		C	UX/DX	Pre-built images	Enable hardware acceleration for QEMU (VIRGL?)
41		C	UX/DX	Tools	Investigate VSCode extensions useful to ROS
42		C	UX/DX	Tools	Try running OE containers on other hosts (eg Ubuntu and Debian)
43		C	Infrastructure	Maintenance	Figure out why ros-default-runtime and rosidl-adapter packages need to be explicitly added
44		C	Infrastructure	Maintenance	Attempt to build ROS Noetic and ROS 2 (Humble?) side-by-side in one image	May require adding the ros-<DISTRO>- prefix to allow multiple versions of the same package
45		D	UX/DX	Tools	Support for additional simulators	eg. Webots, mvsim, MuJoco, IsaacSim, Drake, PyBullet, Pyrobosim, Stage, etc
46		D	UX/DX	Tutorials	Go through the ROS Tutorials with the SDK
47		D	UX/DX	Web	Migrate from rqt tools to Robot Web Tools
48		D	UX/DX	Web	Migrate turtlesim to web interface	eg. https://github.com/mlauret/web-turtlesim or https://github.com/elector102/Turtlesim-Web
49		B	UX/DX	Web	Create a dashboard with ROS packages	eg. if the recipe exists, when it was last built successfully, version number, etc
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