Resignation as Graal OpenJDK Project Lead

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

Hi all,

I hereby resign my role as Graal OpenJDK Project Lead. It has been a pleasure and honour to lead the project over the last 3 years. It has developed from a small Java research compiler prototype to a fully functional just-in-time compiler alternative for Java and a dynamic language framework in use by other open source language implementations such as FastR [1] or JRuby [2]. Due to my new role as Research Director at Oracle Labs overseeing a larger area of programming language implementation research, it is time to pass on the project leadership.

According to the bylaws, the lead of the sponsoring group (Vladimir Kozlov from the HotSpot group) needs to assign a new project lead [3]. I recommend to nominate Doug Simon for this important role. Doug contributed a record number of 3000 (!) change sets to the project [4] and has been closely involved from the very beginning.

Let’s continue on our successful path :)!

Regards, thomas

[1] https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr
[2] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead
[4] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/graal/graal-compiler/search/?rev=doug%20simon&revcount=3000