CFV: New OpenJDK Committer: Simon Tooke

Andrew Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Wed May 27 19:31:56 UTC 2020


On 27/05/2020 20:19, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 27, 2020, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I hereby nominate Simon Tooke (stooke) [0] to OpenJDK Committer.
> 
> Any particular reason for using “OpenJDK” instead of a/the project name (“JDK”)?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mikael
> 

I tend to always use OpenJDK for clarity. 'JDK' has a history of
association with the Sun/Oracle proprietary project.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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