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