Status/2024Q2/erlang.adoc: Add report

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+=== FreeBSD Erlang Ecosystem Ports update
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+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Erlang[FreeBSD Erlang wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Erlang[] +
+link:https://erlang.org/[Erlang/OTP language] URL: link:https://erlang.org/[] +
+link:https://elixir-lang.org/[Elixir language] URL: link:https://elixir-lang.org/[] +
+link:https://gleam.run/[Gleam language] URL: link:https://gleam.run/[] +
+
+Contact: FreeBSD Erlang mailing list <erlang@FreeBSD.org>
+
+The Erlang runtime system, commonly known as the BEAM, provides a runtime that is used by a number of programming languages and applications in the FreeBSD ports collection.
+
+Notable changes in 2024 include:
+
+* adding OTP27, the latest Erlang runtime release, Elixir 1.17, and Gleam 1.20
+* more than 57 point release updates so far in 2024
+* improved inline documentation within Erlang ports
+* moved RabbitMQ port to the generic UNIX build, decoupling this from Elixir as a build-time dependency.
+This enables moving RabbitMQ to the latest supported release.
+Users of RabbitMQ need to update each quarter to avoid being stuck on an unsupported release of Erlang/OTP + RabbitMQ
+
+Note that as the upstream Erlang OTP team only commit to supporting the two latest major releases, more and more point updates are arriving for OTP26-27, but not for the older Erlang runtime releases, which are now unlikely to get security and bug fixes.
+
+During 2024Q3, the Erlang team is planning to:
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+* migrate the base package:lang/erlang[] port to OTP26 and update related dependencies
+
+Additional testing and community contributions are welcome, please reach out on the mailing list, especially if you are able to help testing of specific port updates.