CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Fei Yang (fyang)

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Vote: yes

Thanks,
Vladimir K

PS: Accodring to OpenJDK bylaws [1] you need 32 contributions to qualify for Reviewer status. Fei has 23.
But taking into account the scope of RISC-V port changes I agree with this nomination.

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-reviewer

On 3/28/22 8:23 AM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> I hereby nominate Fei Yang (fyang)[1] for JDK Reviewer.
> 
> Felix is currently the JDK Committer and the member of JVM team at Huawei. His main area of expertise is the HotSpot JIT 
> compiler and one of his notable contributions is the backend of C1 & C2 JIT compilers for RISC-V. Felix has been active 
> in AArch64 as well [2].
> 
> He is also the Project Lead for RISC-V Port [3], 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 
> recently. Gaining a Reviewer role in OpenJDK would help Felix to lead RISC-V port development and maintenance in mainline.
> 
> Votes are due by 23:59 UTC, April 12, 2022.
> 
> Only current JDK Reviewers [4] are eligible to vote on this nomination. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to 
> this mailing list.
> 
> For Three-Vote Consensus voting instructions, see [5].
>