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Add Kristian Nielsen as third Steward - #10

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There was a request for a third Steward.

A Steward needs to be a long-time core developer. The group of Stewarts need to not all belong to the same single company.

The only possible candidate seems to be Kristian Nielsen, who has been a core MariaDB developer as long as Monty and Sanja and one year longer than Serg, and how is not affiliated with MariaDB Corporation.

There was a request for a third Steward.

A Steward needs to be a long-time core developer. The group of
Stewarts need to not all belong to the same single company.

The only possible candidate seems to be Kristian Nielsen, who has been
a core MariaDB developer as long as Monty and Sanja and one year
longer than Serg, and how is not affiliated with MariaDB Corporation.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@knielsen-hq.org>
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knielsen requested a review from a team as a code owner September 16, 2026 13:59

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Here I have the same answer as PR #9:

MariaDB Foundation CEO casting the decisive vote is enough for me. I think the number of stewards should be minimal (I'd think we only really need one anyway). With 3, there would be no point in having the rest of the council.

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vuvova commented Sep 17, 2026

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@knielsen, thanks. I understand why you're doing it, but I think it's unnecessary. A "steward" is somebody who cannot be a maintainer, but still should participate in server-wide decisions. Basically it was created for Monty. To a lesser degree for me, as I can happily be a maintainer. But you're already a maintainer so, in my opinion, you don't need to become "knows about the server but cannot be bothered to maintain any part of it"

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three weeks passed, not enough votes, so closing

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