CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Nizar Benalla

[Pavel Rappo]

Vote: yes


On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM Chen Liang <chen.l.liang at oracle.com> wrote:
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> I hereby nominate Nizar Benalla (nbenalla) [1] to JDK Reviewer.
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> Nizar is a member of Java Language and Tooling team at Oracle, and a Committer in the JDK project.
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> Nizar is focused on documentation housekeeping and start of new releases of the JDK. He has contributed 93 commits to the JDK mainline [2] so far. Nizar has championed more detailed testing for docs in test/docs directory [3], including HTML format checkers, link anchor checkers, and since version checkers.
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> Nizar has demonstrated a good track of reviews for documentation fixes. He has reviewed 23 mainline patches [4], mostly related to Javadoc stylistic fixes.
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> Votes are due by 00:00 UTC Wednesday, February 18th, 2026.
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> Only current JDK Reviewers [5] are eligible to vote on this nomination. 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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> — Chen Liang
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> [1] https://openjdk.org/census#nbenalla
> [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anizarbenalla+label%3Aintegrated+-label%3Abackport
> [3] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commits/master/test/docs
> [4] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3Anizarbenalla+-author%3Anizarbenalla+-label%3Abackport
> [5] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
> [6] https://openjdk.org/groups/#member-vote
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