Apr 24 2026

Attendees:

• Not captured

Key decisions

• We approved subprojects for the new podman github organization. See below for specifics.
• Application for CNCF incubation should be presented to core maintainers prior to submission.
• Paul Holzinger will represent core maintainers in any discussions that impact our CI.

Key discussions

• Do all decisions have to be brought to this group? Consensus was "it depends"; some decisions are appropriate for github while others needs to be discussed.

• We need external meetings for Podman and friends. Unanimous agreement.

• Which sub-projects make sense in the new podman github organization

  • container-libs
  • podman.io
  • buildah.io
  • go.podman.io
  • machine-os
  • podman-py

  The container-selinux project was deferred.

• Discussion around CNCF incubation and readiness. We agreed that due to the impact of incubation, a majority (or more) of the core maintainers should be in agreement to move forward. And preferably the core maintainers should have an opportunity to review it.

• We discussed current state of CI for our repositories. Due to the potential wide-ranging impact of changes to our CI with no involvement of maintainers, we want a maintainer to be part of those efforts in terms of design and approval of approaches and methods.

• Core maintainer meeting frequency will now be monthly.

• We need to review the MAINTAINERS.md file with regularity. Brent will review Podman's, Miloslav will review Skopeo's, and Tom will review Buildahs.