I'm happy to announce that as of today, there will be a new core committer: Gábor Hojtsy. Gábor will be a co-maintainer of the DRUPAL-6 branch (the next Drupal version after Drupal 5.x).

An important reason for putting Gábor in this role is his work on localization and internationalization, his involvement with the Hungarian Drupal community, his PHP documentation team background, and the consistent stream of high-quality patches for Drupal core.

Gábor can only commit patches to the DRUPAL-6 branch, or until that branch exists, to CVS HEAD. When the DRUPAL-6 branch is created, he is no longer allowed to commit patches to CVS HEAD. This means Gábor will be a dedicated maintainer for Drupal 6.

This brings the number of core committers to five: Gerhard Killesreiter (maintains the DRUPAL-4-7 branch), Neil Drumm (maintains the DRUPAL-5 branch), Gábor Hojtsy (maintains the DRUPAL-6 branch), Steven Wittens (maintains all branches) and myself (maintains all branches).

Please join me in thanking Gábor for taking on this role.