Re: CFV: New JDK Committer: Paul Hübner

[David Holmes]

Vote: yes

David

On 26/02/2026 6:00 pm, Joel Sikstrom wrote:
> I hereby nominate Paul Hübner to JDK Committer.
> 
> Paul is a member of the HotSpot Runtime team at Oracle. To date, Paul 
> has made 16 commits [3], improving robustness across multiple areas of 
> HotSpot by strengthening invariants and enhancing/fixing tests. This is 
> also evident in his PR reviews (26 so far [4]), where Paul regularly 
> challenges changes to be more defensive and looks for opportunities to 
> improve robustness and long-term maintainability.
> 
> In addition to his contributions to mainline JDK development, Paul plays 
> a key role in the development and testing of Project Valhalla, and some 
> of that work has carried over into his mainline contributions.
> 
> Votes are due by 2026-03-12T09:00+01:00.
> 
> Only current JDK Committers [1] 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 [2].
> 
> Joel Sikström
> 
> [1] https://openjdk.org/census
> [2] https://openjdk.org/projects/#committer-vote
> [3] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commits?author=arraying
> [4] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+reviewed- 
> by%3Aarraying+-author%3Aarraying <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls? 
> page=1&q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3Aarraying+-author%3Aarraying>