The CVF for Josh Bloch's membership[1] has now closed, and the results have been tallied. Valid votes were received from the following Members of the Core Libraries Group: Alan Bateman vote: yes Christopher Hegarty vote: yes David Bristor vote: yes Doug Lea vote: yes Iris Clark vote: yes Joe Darcy vote: yes Mark Reinhold vote: yes Martin Buchholz vote: yes Peter Jones vote: yes Xueming Shen vote: yes According to the rules describing group expansion[2], this is sufficient to approve the proposal for Josh Bloch to become a Member of the Core Libraries Group. Congratulations and Welcome Josh! iris core-libs-dev moderator [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2009-February/001083.ht... [2] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/