CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Nizar Benalla

[Naoto Sato]

Vote: yes

Naoto

On 2/3/26 3:28 PM, Chen Liang wrote:
> 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
>