Dear community members,
I’m pleased to announce that Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> will be the Release Manager for the next Xen release.
The appointment was voted by the Committers and the vote passed.
Julien has done excellent jobs in many aspects. He has been an active  developer for the past few years and contributed a lot of code for Xen on ARM. He has been doing a good job in co-maintaining Xen on ARM with Stefano Stabellini. Particularly in 4.8 release, he showed his ability to make balanced decisions and influence other contributors to move various projects forward. He also expressed desire to work with greater Xen community and make bigger impact.
All in all, we believe Julien will do a good job in managing the next release. Thanks Julien for stepping up.
Regards,
Wei Liu (on behalf of the Xen Project Hypervisor team)
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