# Welcome new Ansible Release Manager

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/welcome-new-ansible-release-manager/43950>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Tags:** community, release-management, ansible, ee\
**Created:** [July 18, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/welcome-new-ansible-release-manager/43950 "2025-07-18T16:37:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![anwesha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/anwesha/32/20_2.png) [@anwesha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anwesha)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/welcome-new-ansible-release-manager/43950/1 "2025-07-18T16:37:35Z")

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We are excited to welcome Tray Keller (Github: [traytorous](https://github.com/traytorous)) to the Ansible release-management working group. He successfully shadowed the release manager, @anwesha, for the following releases

1. 12.0.0a9 Ansible Package release.
2. 11.8.0 Ansible Package release.
3. 2.18.6-1 EE (base and minimal) releases.
4. 2.18.7-1 EE (base and minimal) releases.

Tray introduces himself as,

"Hello! My name is Tray Keller, and I am part of the Partner Engineering and Community teams. Starting now, I will be a part of the Ansible release-management working group! It’s a pleasure to meet you all!

You can find and talk to me on [matrix](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DAeC2j-6A9FEufnyX_mzFDoSAI3OAjaxTbC2knRMi4k/edit#release-management:ansible.com)!"

Thank you and welcome, Tray, to the Ansible release-management working group.

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**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/welcome-new-ansible-release-manager/43950/2 "2025-07-18T18:37:11Z")

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You can find him as @TKeller on the Forum.