CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Nizar Benalla

[Chen Liang]

Vote: yes
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From: Chen Liang <chen.l.liang at oracle.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 5:28 PM
To: OpenJDK Dev <jdk-dev at openjdk.org>
Subject: CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Nizar Benalla

I hereby nominate Nizar Benalla (nbenalla) [1] to JDK Reviewer.

Nizar is a member of Java Language and Tooling team at Oracle, and a Committer in the JDK project.

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.

Nizar has demonstrated a good track of reviews for documentation fixes. He has reviewed 23 mainline patches [4], mostly related to Javadoc stylistic fixes.

Votes are due by 00:00 UTC Wednesday, February 18th, 2026.

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.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [6].

Best regards,

— Chen Liang


[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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