[13u-communication] End of maintenance & invitation for new maintainers

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Yuri,

thank you for your nomination.

As a process reminder

https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/maintainers.html says

"After a one-week nomination period, the Project Lead will select a 
candidate from amongst the nominees and then ratify this selection via a 
one-week Lazy Consensus vote of this Project's Committers and Reviewers."

The nomination period ends a week after Rob's message, i.e. on 25.2.

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 19.02.2020 11:56, Yuri Nesterenko wrote:
> Thank You.
> 
> I would like to nominate myself to the role of lead maintainer of the
> OpenJDK 13u Updates forest. I have been working on Java and OpenJDK
> development for quite some time. I have actively participated in
> development of AWT and as a Reviewer in JDK, JDK Updates and several
> other OpenJDK projects. In my role as lead maintainer for 13u, I
> anticipate the backing of several other OpenJDK Updates committers
> currently employed at Azul, who have been actively contributing to 11u,
> 8u, and 7u updates, as well as any others who wish to join in the effort.
> 
> As some of you already know, Azul plans to continue building quarterly
> community updates for OpenJDK 13 under what we have been referring to as
> "MTS" (Mid Term Support) releases. Rather than providing a long term
> support horizon, MTS releases are intended to provide an update overlap
> window of 18 months with the next LTS release (presumably JDK 17). The
> key purpose of MTS updates is to increase the likelihood of production
> adoption of releases between LTSs, allow users to more quickly adopt new
> capabilities introduced with Feature releases, and increase the
> production-based feedback and bug flow that can hopefully make the next
> LTS even better. By committing to provide updates until 18 months after
> the next LTS comes out, we expect to increase the production adoption of
> MTS releases, as end users can expect community updates to continue to
> arrive until well after the next LTS is mature, stable, and can be
> transitioned to for production use at low risk.
> 
> We anticipate our first planned 13u MTS update to be April 2020. Likely
> using the update version 13.0.3. As such, we have chosen to commit the
> appropriate resources to do this work, and intend to maintain continuity
> for OpenJDK's JDK 13u, much like it has for JDK 11u. We would be happy
> see others join in the 13u effort as well.
> 
> We have immediate plans to backport some 220+ changes already ported to
> JDK 11u and maintain security level on par with other update releases.
> Having a rather tight schedule, it may be not prudent to add all the bug
> backports to the April, 14  update but we hope to see all of them in by
> July.
> 
> Yuri Nesterenko (http://openjdk.java.net/census#yan)
> 
> --yan
> 
> On 18.02.2020 20:09, Rob McKenna wrote:
>> I'm sending this mail to notify the community that the current maintainers
>> intend to step down as maintainers for the JDK 13 Updates forest [1] at the
>> end of March, or sooner, if new maintainers were to step up. [2]
>>
>> This being the case we would like to invite prospective new maintainers to
>> step forward at this point to ensure a smooth transition should they wish to
>> maintain this forest beyond the end of March.
>>
>>        -Rob
>>
>> [1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk13u
>> [2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/maintainers.html

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