TOC Election 2026

As is tradition, each year we have a new election for our Technical Oversight Committee. This past year, the elected members were (in alphabetical order) 6543, delvh, and lafriks. We'd like to thank them for their service in continuing to ensure that Gitea is the best it can be.

Our election process started this May where maintainers nominated other maintainers, or themselves to be put up as options for the election. The candidates who accepted the nominations were ChristopherHX, delvh, TheFox0x7 and bircni.

This year, for the first time, we had a tie between two candidates, ChristopherHX and TheFox0x7, which was resolved by a new script that randomly selects one of the tied candidates as the winner. This has been documented in our election process for future elections, and the script is available in our repository for transparency.

The elected TOC members are incumbent delvh, and two new members, TheFox0x7 and bircni. Congratulations to the elected members and thank you for your willingness to serve the Gitea community in this important role.

The ballot totals are¹:

ChristopherHX   6
TheFox0x7       6
delvh           13
bircni          13

We look forward to our first meeting of the TOC to set the roadmap for the next year.

Thank you to everyone for your participation in this wonderful journey of building Gitea.

The new TOC members