[11u-communication] Call for new lead maintainer

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/30/19 6:33 PM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> To help transition the jdk11u repository[0] to a new set of
> maintainers, I'd like to invite JDK Updates Project Committers
> and Reviewers who are not currently employed by Oracle to nominate
> themselves for the position of lead maintainer by replying to this
> mail.

Thank you. This is essentially the same message that I sent in reply
to the jdk8u maintainership:

I am willing to perform that role. I lead the OpenJDK 7 (and 8!)
projects and have in the past led OpenJDK 6u and the AArch64 port. I
have personally contributed 145 patches to OpenJDK, in many areas but
mostly HotSpot. I wrote a substantial chunk of the AArch64 port. I am
a community representative on the OpenJDK Governing Board, and have
been since its inception.

Perhaps most importantly, I have the Java Platform group at Red Hat --
a team of about twenty engineers -- supporting me. I couldn't do it
without them.

With regard to future plans, my Rule 0 is "first, do no harm": OpenJDK
11 is an increasingly important part of many organization's
infrastructure, and we must not break it. I don't imagine that there
will be many major feature backports, but I won't forbid them
altogether.  I don't intend to be a dictator: we should reach
consensus on such decisions.

Testing backports is going to be tricky. I've been discussing this
with several organizations including AdoptOpenJDK and Amazon Web
Services, all keen to help. We already have extensive test suites, and
we will work together to improve them.

Security is an important issue. We have a healthy OpenJDK
Vulnerability Group, and will work with them to ensure that OpenJDK 11
remains secure. Critical updates will be done quarterly, as they have
been throughout the life of OpenJDK 11.

-- 
Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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