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Mon 28 Apr 2025 11:13AM

馃煩 Distributions Election for the OpenSSL Foundation TAC

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The OpenSSL Foundation invites each participating distribution's delegate to vote in the selection of the Distributions Representative for the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).

The TAC strengthens our technical governance by ensuring that OpenSSL鈥檚 development priorities and technical directions reflect the needs, insights, and expertise of the broader community, in alignment with the OpenSSL Mission.

Voting Details:

  • Each designated delegate is authorised to cast one vote on behalf of their distribution.

  • Voting is open until May 11 at 12:00 UTC.

  • Delegates may update or change their selection at any point until the voting period closes.

  • The results will be visible after the election is closed.

Your participation is critical in shaping the future technical leadership of OpenSSL Project.

EC

Poll Created Mon 28 Apr 2025 11:18AM

Foundation TAC Distributions' Election Closed Sun 11 May 2025 12:00PM

Outcome
by Anton Arapov Sun 11 May 2025 1:37PM

Following the recent TAC election process, Dmitry Belyavskiy was elected by three communities: Committers, Distributions, and Large Business. In accordance with the TAC formation guidelines, each individual may occupy only one seat.

Dmitry has chosen to occupy the Committers seat on the OpenSSL Foundation TAC.

As a result, the Distributions community seat remains vacant.

Members of the Distributions community are invited to nominate a new candidate if they wish to proceed with an additional election to fill the seat. If no nominations are received, the seat will remain vacant.

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Dmitry Belyavskiy 100.0% 4 JB DB JR AB
None of the above 0% 2 MC SL
Undecided 0% 6 KR GT IS YO SS SJ

6 of 12 people have participated (50%)

EC

Election Committee Mon 28 Apr 2025 11:18AM

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.