Nominating Mikael Gerdin to be an OpenJDK committer and a reviewer

[James Melvin]

Fully supportive!

- Jim


On 6/27/11 3:42 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> With the new OpenJDK bylaws almost in place we need to follow the
> process that they outline to get OpenJDK user names even for the people
> working at Oracle. Mikael Gerdin does not have an OpenJDK user name yet.
> He helped me a lot with the CMS bug that I have been working on during
> the spring and he also reviewed and had good comments on my quicksort
> implementation. I would very much like to list him as a reviewer when I
> push this change.
>
> To grant Mikael reviewer status in OpenJDK we need to first make him a
> committer (lazy consensus - no vetoes) and then vote him in as a
> reviewer (at least three votes in favor and no vetoes).
>
> Since this is blocking my push, could I please have some votes for
> making Mikael Gerdin a committer and a reviewer?
>
> Relevant part of the bylaws:
> http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/draft-openjdk-bylaws-10#_7
>
> Copying Mark on this thread since this is the first time this is done
> and I would like to know that we are on the right track.
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt