CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Ralf Schmelter

[Chris Plummer]

vote: yes

On 9/22/21 2:52 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> I hereby nominate Ralf Schmelter (rschmelter)[0] to OpenJDK Reviewer.
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> Ralf is currently a JDK Committer and a member of the SAP JVM team.
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> He has a long history in the SAP JVM team and basically knows
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> each corner of the OpenJDK.  In Hotspot, he has deep knowledge of
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> the various garbage collections, the basic runtime implementation,
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> debugging and JVMTI support and many more.  At SAP, he developed
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> a row of profiling and supportability tools. A large part
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> of his changes in OpenJDK address supportability improvements of
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> the VM, as, e.g., improving the experience of working with heap
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> dumps[1]. He always follows a global approach, e.g., also addressing
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> changes needed in tools.
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> He has contributed overall 32 changes [4] in the past years.
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> He also already reviewed a row of complex changes.
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> He is an expert in Windows, which is nowadays rare in the
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> OpenJDK community.
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> Votes are due 12:00 CEST on Wednesday, the 6th of October, 2021
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> Only current OpenJDK Reviewers (and above) [5] are eligible to
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> vote on this nomination.
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> Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
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> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [6].
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> Best regards,
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>    Goetz.
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> [0] http://openjdk.java.net/census#rschmelter
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> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8237354: Add option to jcmd to write a gzipped heap dump
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> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8234510: Remove file seeking requirement for writing a heap dump
> [3] https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/mat/org.eclipse.mat/+/173722
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> [4] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/search?p=1&q=author-name%3A%22Ralf+Schmelter%22&type=commits
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> [5] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk
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> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#reviewer-vote
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