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Dominant language: Python
License: CC-BY-4.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Document the snapshot apt repository Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#7188 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Broken API documentation link for rccpp and rclpy Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#7185 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
📝 Establish redirects Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#7162 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
📝 Include rmw_zenoh that supports rosidl::Buffer in lyrical Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#7097 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Documentation on installing ROS 2 on macOS Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#7066 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2026
3di | Implement tooling/workflow modifications to ROS docs tech stack Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6991 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
📝 Update install-from-source for debian trixie Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6976 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Stop building & deploying EOL distro documentation, freeze last-known-good on docs.ros.org Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#6964 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 10, 2026
RHEL 10 cannot install ros-lyrical-desktop Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6886 · Opened Jun 1, 2026
3di | Create and update community content Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6828 · Opened May 21, 2026
3di | Improve and complete the "First Steps with ROS" content Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6827 · Opened May 21, 2026
3di | Create "About" articles for the main functionality areas Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6826 · Opened May 21, 2026
Turtle2 rotates unnecessarily and keeps spinning when using static fixed frame offset Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6793 · Opened May 16, 2026
Misleading fixed frame broadcaster code in tf2 Adding a Frame (C++) tutorial Open

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 74/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6792 · Opened May 16, 2026
📝 New Community Client library for GoLang Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6567 · 2 comments · Opened May 6, 2026
📝 Switch from vcstool to vcs2l Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6513 · Opened May 1, 2026
Add guidelines on how a new rmw implementation can be made broadly available to ROS 2 users Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6472 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2026
rclcpp: Document value = declare_parameter Parameter pattern for basic parameter usage Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#6305 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Long-Term Home for URDF XML Format Specification (related to ROS 1 Wiki EOL) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6235 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 13, 2026
Create a macro for linking API classes or functions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6186 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Canonical URL generation logic can lead to incorrect mirror results Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#6112 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Basic python publisher / subscriber tutorials only show ament_python Open

backlog

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5983 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 25, 2025
📝 Explicitely state that PYTHONPATH should be manually updated in ros2 virtual environments Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5974 · Opened Oct 21, 2025
Document release process from the point of view of users & downstream maintainers: pkg release, rosdistro PR, sync, patch release Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#5856 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2025
Inline Code Examples / Tutorials discussion Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5839 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Python Message Container Type Misinformation Open

backport-all bug

ros2/ros2_documentation#5820 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025
📝 Setup instruction for `rosdep` on `macOS` is missing Open

backlog help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5818 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2025
RFC: The ROS 2 Reference Open

more-information-needed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5704 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2025
📝 More middleware documentation needs to include Zenoh Open

more-information-needed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5643 · 4 comments · Opened May 20, 2025
RVIZ render window error when running rviz2 on ROS-jazzy Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#5635 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 18, 2025
📝 Discuss Events executor in "About Executors" page Open

help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5571 · 4 comments · Opened May 7, 2025
📝 Clarify Connext RMW instructions also support ARM64 Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#5557 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 6, 2025
Document subordinate nodes aka sub-nodes Open

good first issue help wanted

ros2/ros2_documentation#5457 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 1, 2025
Add dedicated tutorial on node and topic namespacing Open

help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5362 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2025
Add `WaitForTopics` example to integration testing tutorial Open

help wanted

ros2/ros2_documentation#5249 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 19, 2025
Bumb CI to 24.04 Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#5244 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 19, 2025
Possible issue about fixed frame in ROS 2 + Gazebo tutorial Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5222 · Opened Apr 7, 2025
📝Copy To clipboard button not working Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5214 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2025
📝 Use URL links to the demo/example source code instead of pasting it in doc section. Open

backlog

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#5188 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Requesting ROS 2 words for codespell ROS 2 dictionary support. Open

enhancement

ros2/ros2_documentation#5004 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 8, 2025
Add a tutorial on Lifecycle nodes Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#4924 · 18 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 6, 2025
Add a page describing the ROS Boss role Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#4886 · 3 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Dec 2, 2024
White Space Cleanup Before Linting? Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#4874 · 1 comment · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Document editing/debugging process in VSCode for C++ and Python when developing with the standard ROS toolchain. Open

help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#4766 · Opened Sep 21, 2024
Regression - Python tests no longer discovered if using new setuptools. Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#4727 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2024
Include ROS 2 Mirror Page Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#4618 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 15, 2024
Write A Concrete Package Maintainers Guide to build.ros.org Open

ros2/ros2_documentation#4617 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2024
Add tutorial how to allow and override the QoS configuration when node starts. Open

backlog

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#4549 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2024
Proposal for a ROS 2 Skill Tree on ROS2 Docs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#4514 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 6, 2024
Proposal for reshaping Launch tutorials Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ros2/ros2_documentation#4453 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2024

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