diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/core.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/core.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5e2f809ade --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/core.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +=== FreeBSD Core Team + +Contact: FreeBSD Core Team + +The FreeBSD Core Team is the governing body of FreeBSD. + +Core welcomes René Ladan (rene@) as their new secretary. + +==== Liaisons + +Core selected new liaisons for the various teams among themselves: + +* bugmeister: glebius +* ci: olivier +* clusteradm: mat +* doceng: lwhsu +* foundation: hrs +* portmgr: tcberner +* re: dch +* secteam: allanjude +* srcmgr: glebius + +==== DevSummit 202409 + +* The Core Team was almost fully present at EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin. + The following people were present: allanjude, dch, glebius, hrs, lwhsu, mat, olivier, rene + +* Slides are available at link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202409[] + +* Core met with the FreeBSD Foundation to have their periodic meeting and take the change to do it in face-to-face. + Topics included improving alignment and communications between the two groups and the community. + +==== New support timeline for FreeBSD releases + +* Core approves the proposal by re@ to reduce the support timeline for FreeBSD releases from five to four years, after which the release is supported on a best-effort basis. + This proposal is also backed by portmgr and secteam. + +==== srcmgr + +* Core helped in forming a new srcmgr team. Their charter is not fully set in stone yet, it can be adjusted if needed in 6-12 months from now. +* Nominations for new src commit bits should from now on be sent to srcmgr@ instead of core@ +* A lurker program is suggested to keep an influx of new members. +* Core announced srcmgr during DevSummit 202409 and sent a follow-up to developers@ on September 29. + +==== Commit bits + +* Core welcomes Igor Ostapenko (igoro) as a new src committer. + +* Core extended the text that the grim reaper script sends to include ways on how to get commit bits of developers re-activated.