CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Chen Liang

[Pavel Rappo]

I hereby withdraw CFV [^1] for New JDK Reviewer: Chen Liang.

Let me stress that this withdrawal has nothing to do with Chen or his qualifications. It has to do with strict adherence to our process.

Per bylaws, a Reviewer nomination [^2] requires the nominee to already be a Committer, which has to be reflected in the Census. While Chen had been nominated to JDK Committer, voted for, and the positive result announced before I started the JDK Reviewer CFV, the result had not yet been recorded in the Census. I should've formally checked the Census before the CFV for JDK Reviewer, but I didn't, which was my mistake.

An additional reason to withdraw this nomination is that the CFV message did not explain why Chen was being nominated to JDK Reviewer so soon after becoming a JDK Committer, which led to some confusion. While Claes explained this later on [^3], that information was buried deep in the replies to the CFV. I will include that explanation in the revised CFV.

Apologies to Chen and his voters.

-Pavel

[^1]: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2024-June/009049.html
[^2]: https://openjdk.org/bylaws#reviewer and https://openjdk.org/projects/#project-reviewer
[^3]: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2024-June/009079.html

> On 6 Jun 2024, at 14:34, Pavel Rappo <pavel.rappo at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I hereby nominate Chen Liang to JDK Reviewer.
> 
> Chen is a member of the Java LangTools team at Oracle. Since 2021
> Chen has co-authored 3 commits and authored 57 commits. Over that
> time Chen has reviewed 53 commits, most of which are in the
> java.lang.{constant,invoke,reflect,runtime,util,}, classfile,
> jdk.compiler, and jdk.javadoc areas.
> 
> Chen's comments as a de facto reviewer are substantial and helpful.
> 
> Votes are due by 2024-06-21 20:00 UTC.
> 
> Only current JDK Reviewers [1] 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 [2].
> 
> -Pavel
> 
> [1] https://openjdk.org/census
> [2] https://openjdk.org/projects/#reviewer-vote
>