馃煢 Committers Election for the OpenSSL Corporation TAC
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The OpenSSL Corporation invites eligible committers community members to participate in the selection of the Committers Representative for the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
The TAC plays an important role in strengthening OpenSSL鈥檚 technical governance, ensuring that development priorities and technical directions are informed by the needs, insights, and expertise of the broader community, while upholding the OpenSSL Mission.
Voting Details:
Each eligible community member may cast one vote directly.
Voting is open until May 11 at 12:00 UTC.
Voters may update or change their selection at any time before the voting period closes.
The results will be visible after the election is closed.
Your engagement is essential to shaping the future technical direction of OpenSSL.
Poll Created Mon 28 Apr 2025 10:50AM
Corporation TAC Committers' Election Closed Sun 11 May 2025 12:00PM
Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent election. Shane Lontis has been elected to a Committers seat in the OpenSSL Corporation TAC. We encourage community members to engage with Shane in their new role as representative for your community.
The formation of the TAC is an important part of the OpenSSL Project community engagement changes we initiated in early 2024.
Congratulations to Shane!
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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Shane Lontis | 66.7% | 8 |
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Dmitry Belyavskiy | 33.3% | 4 |
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| None of the above | 0% | 0 | ||||
| Undecided | 0% | 7 |
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12 of 19 people have participated (63%)
Election Committee Mon 28 Apr 2025 10:51AM
Nominee: Shane Lontis
Statement
I have actively participated as an OTC member and committer over the last 5 years.
I have been working as an applied cryptographer for more than a decade and have been coding professionally for over 30 years.
My technical contributions to OpenSSL include the implementation of low-level algorithms (RSA, DSA/DH, SLH-DSA, and ML-DSA), as well as the design and implementation of the FIPS provider.
Besides knowledge and experience, I take care to communicate and collaborate effectively with other members of the community. My work is always undertaken with honesty, integrity, and consideration for my colleagues.
For these reasons, I would be a suitable candidate to provide technical input that represents the consensus of the committer community.
Election Committee 路 Mon 28 Apr 2025 10:50AM
Nominee: Dmitry Belyavskiy
Statement
have 20+ years of experience with OpenSSL development, have been a Committer since 2019 and a member of the OpenSSL Technical Committee since 2021. I am an OpenSSL maintainer in RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora Linux distributions. My last major contribution to OpenSSL was the introduction of opaque objects for dealing with non-extractable symmetric keys (EVP_SKEY).
My main interest in OpenSSL development is its pluggability. As much extending the functionality as possible should be doable via the providers mechanism. I also think that we need to provide more handles for extending system-wide and application-wide configuration of OpenSSL as a framework.
I believe that something like maintainer's club should be established. This club could also participate in decisions about feature branches and be involved in the CVE process.
I think that we currently don't have enough people to review the PRs. I think we should add the role of reviewers to the role of committers. I believe that the distribution's representatives and the representatives of major companies having their forks should be granted the status of reviewers.
I think that for better communication with various communities OpenSSL, both Corporation and Foundation, should introduce the practice of Open Hours.