Notes from the Git Contributor's Summit, 2026

[Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com>]

Thanks to everybody who participated in this year's Contributor's
Summit, and to the folks who took notes during the discussions.

I'm sharing the notes here so that people who could not attend can catch
up, and so we can continue the discussions on the list. The shared notes
are also in Google Docs:

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/15gDNTjCh9-aQ1ES2MDot5_Qnxj6vRMGwxbH7eixxT84/edit

The topics covered in the replies below are:

 - Security mailing list and security process
 - Git 3.0
 - Documentation
 - Outreachy sponsorship
 - What can we do next with pluggable ODB?
 - AI contribution policy
 - Protocol v2 for pushes

I've lightly edited the notes for readability and kept the speaker
attributions. These are discussion notes, rather than a verbatim
transcript; please reply with corrections or anything the notes missed.
Release dates and reports of work in progress reflect the discussion at
the summit.

Each topic has its own reply to this message so that follow-up
discussion can stay with the relevant notes.

If you have feedback about the summit itself, please share it here or
with me off-list.

Thanks,
Taylor