Two new core committers

I'm happy to announce that as of today, there will be two new core committers:

Gerhard Killesreiter (killes)
Gerhard will be a maintainer of the DRUPAL-4-7 branch. Drupal 4.7.0 will be our best release to date, and having a dedicated maintainer is going to be extremely valuable. I believe Gerhard will do a great job securing the stability of the Drupal 4.7 release series. After all, he is particularly skilled in saying "no, only bugfixes are allowed". ;-)
Neil Drumm (drumm)
Neil will be a maintainer of the DRUPAL-4-8/DRUPAL-5-0 branch (the next Drupal version after Drupal 4.7). An important reason for putting Neil in this role is his background with the update/install system and his experience maintaining a successful Drupal distribution. Hopefully, his experience will help us to get closer to supporting install profiles.

Please join me in thanking Gerhard and Neil for taking on these roles.

This brings the number of core committers to four: Gerhard Killesreiter (killes), Neil Drumm (drumm), Steven Wittens (steven) and myself. Gerhard and Neil will operate under different terms than Steven and myself. Read on to learn more about this.

Rules

Gerhard and Neil will operate under different terms than Steven and myself:

  1. Gerhard and Neil can only commit to their branch, or if their branch doesn't exist yet, to CVS HEAD.
  2. Gerhard and Neil lose their commit access when their branch is no longer maintained or supported.

Additional information

  1. At the moment, Gerhard can commit to CVS HEAD because the DRUPAL-4-7 branch doesn't exist yet. When the DRUPAL-4-7 branch is created, Gerhard is no longer allowed to commit to CVS HEAD.
  2. Neil can commit to CVS HEAD until the DRUPAL-4-8 or DRUPAL-5-0 branch is created. Unlike Gerhard, Neil can commit new features to CVS HEAD (after the DRUPAL-4-7 branch is created) and help shape Drupal 4.8/5.0. However, when the DRUPAL-4-8 or DRUPAL-5-0 branch is created, Neil has to go into "maintenance mode". At that point, he can no longer commit new features.
  3. As of March 15, I'll be away from the keyboard for a while. Having four core committers makes it easier to distribute the work when one of us is absent.
  4. I might add a DRUPAL-4-6 branch maintainer if there are enough core developers interested in taking on such a role.
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