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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 3:29 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>OpenJDK Dev <jdk-dev@openjdk.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> CFV: New JDK Reviewer: Nizar Benalla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">I hereby nominate Nizar Benalla (nbenalla) [1] to JDK Reviewer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Nizar is a member of Java Language and Tooling team at Oracle, and a Committer in the JDK project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Nizar has demonstrated a good track of reviews for documentation fixes. He has reviewed 23 mainline patches [4], mostly related to Javadoc stylistic fixes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Votes are due by 00:00 UTC Wednesday, February 18th, 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [6].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">— Chen Liang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">[1] https://openjdk.org/census#nbenalla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anizarbenalla+label%3Aintegrated+-label%3Abackport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">[3] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commits/master/test/docs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">[4] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3Anizarbenalla+-author%3Anizarbenalla+-label%3Abackport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">[5] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">[6] https://openjdk.org/groups/#member-vote<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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