Technical board report - 1.9 release cycle

[Aymeric Augustin]

Hello,

As promised, here's the report from April 1st to December 1st, 2015.

Activity was even lower than during the 1.8 cycle, which is excellent. For the first time, the board was asked by a commiter to make a technical decision (item 5).

1. April 8th, 2015: adding Preston Timmons to the team with commit access. Decision: yes.

2. June 12th, 2015: adding Tomasz Paczkowski to the team without commit access. Decision: yes.

3. June 16th, 2015: accepting of DEP 3 (JavaScript Tests & Linting). Decision: yes.

4. June 19th, 2015: adopting the new release plan. Decision: yes (including changes that were being incorporated on django-developers while this discussion was taking place).

5. August 24th, 2015: dropping IE8 support in admin from Django 1.9. Decision: yes.

A new board was elected for the 1.10 release cycle: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/roles/#technical-board

Andrew Godwin, Russell Keith-Magee and Carl Meyer stay on the board. James Bennett and Marc Tamlyn take the seats previously held by Jannis Leidel and myself.

(For the record, we decided to re-elect the technical board often specifically to give people an opportunity to step back as needed. This is mostly what happened here.)

Best regards,

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Aymeric.