# Django 1.8.18.dev20170123152445 documentation

# Roles

## Technical board

The technical board for the 1.8 release cycle is:

- Aymeric Augustin
- Andrew Godwin
- Russell Keith-Magee
- Jannis Leidel
- Carl Meyer

## Committers

Most core team members have commit access. They’re called “committers” or “core developers”.

Being part of the core team is a pre-requisite for having commit access.

## Security team

The security team is responsible for Django’s security policies. It handles private reports of security issues.

The current security team members are:

- Florian Apolloner
- James Bennett
- Jeremy Dunck
- Adrian Holovaty
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Russell Keith-Magee
- Paul McMillan
- Carl Meyer
- Donald Stufft

## Releasers

Releasers take care of building Django releases.

The current releasers are:

- James Bennett
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss

## Ops team

The ops team maintains Django’s infrastructure like the Django Project server, Trac instance, and continuous integration infrastructure.

- Florian Apolloner
- Aymeric Augustin
- Tim Graham
- Jannis Leidel