CFV: New HotSpot Group Member: Fei Yang

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Hi,

I hereby nominate Fei Yang to Membership in the HotSpot Group.

Fei is one of the main authors of the RISC-V port. His main area of
expertise is the HotSpot JIT compilers. One of his notable contributions
is the backend of C1 and C2 JIT compilers for RISC-V. He has ported Loom to
Linux/RISC-V platform and has been active in AArch64 port project since 2015.

Fei is currently the JDK Reviewer and the Project Lead for RISC-V Port [1],
which implements a full-featured JVM on Linux/RISC-V platform, including
the template interpreter, C1/C2 and all current mainline GCs. That work had
been integrated to mainline since JDK 19 and backported to JDK 17u recently.

Fei reviewed more than 150 pull requests and contributed more than
50 recorded changes to the JDK project [2].

Votes are due by Tuesday, 25 July 2023 at 22:00 UTC.

Only current Members of the HotSpot Group [3] are eligible to vote on this nomination.
Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].

Best regards,
Vladimir K

[2] https://openjdk.org/census#riscv-port
[1] https://github.com/search?q=author%3ARealFYang+repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk&type=commits
[3] https://openjdk.org/census#hotspot
[4] https://openjdk.org/groups/#member-vote