CFV: New JDK Committer: Bhavana Kilambi

Tobias Hartmann tobias.hartmann at oracle.com
Thu Jan 15 12:30:40 UTC 2026


Vote: yes

Best regards,
Tobias

On 1/14/26 13:28, Fei Gao wrote:
> I hereby nominate Bhavana Kilambi (OpenJDK: bkilambi) [1] to JDK committer.
> 
> Bhavana is currently a member of the Arm JDK team and has so far contributed 24 changes [2] to OpenJDK mainline. Her continued contributions to FP16 have brought significant benefits to AArch64. In addition, her patches include several non-trivial C2 JIT compiler optimizations and bug fixes. She is also a committer of project Valhalla.
> 
> Votes are due by 12:00 UTC January 28, 2026.
> 
> Only current JDK Committers [3] 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 [4].
> 
> Fei Gao
> 
> [1] https://openjdk.org/census#bkilambi <https://openjdk.org/census#bkilambi>
> 
> [2] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk+author-name%3A%22Bhavana+Kilambi%22&type=commits <https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk+author-name%3A%22Bhavana+Kilambi%22&type=commits>
> 
> [3] https://openjdk.org/census <https://openjdk.org/census>
> 
> [4] https://openjdk.org/projects/#committer-vote <https://openjdk.org/projects/#committer-vote>
> 
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