[17u-communication] Invitation for new maintainer

[Volker Simonis]

Hi,

We think Goetz, together with the JVM team at SAP, are ideally suited
for maintaining the JDK 17u repository.

JDK 17u is an important release for Amazon. The Corretto team is
committed to support Goetz and his team with maintaining 17u in the
same way we're already doing this for 8u and 11u.

Looking forward to successful cooperation,
Volker & the Amazon Corretto team

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 1:29 PM Lindenmaier, Goetz
<goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> after consulting the current OpenJDK 11 Updates maintainer team,
> I want to apply for the role as maintainer of the OpenJDK 17
> Updates repository.
>
> I am currently co-maintainer of the OpenJDK 11 Updates
> repository. I backported a large amount of changes to 11u,
> participated in crafting the ramp down process and git transition,
> and continuously tagged and merged the repositories.
> I have contributed many changes to OpenJDK, including the
> PPC64, Aix and s390 ports of SAP and JEP 358 "Helpful
> NullPointerExceptions".
>
> With the good experiences of the OpenJDK 11 Updates project,
> I want to set up the OpenJDK 17 Updates project in a similar
> way.  The SAP Java team will help supporting the project, and
> I also got the consent of Red Hat, who only made the great
> success of the JDK 11 Updates project possible, to again join in the
> effort. Thus, I would start with the same team of co-maintainers.
> Naturally, I welcome the help of the community,
> without which such a project would not be possible!
>
> As with 11u, I will hold stability as the number one goal of the
> project. This is extremely important  for 17u, as the transition
> to 17 from 11, 13 and 15 is easier than that from 8 to 11
> and thus happens at a greater pace.
> Nevertheless I see the need to eventually also accept feature
> backports, if they are integrated carefully and the risk is
> acceptable.
>
> Several engineers of the SAP Java team are members of the
> Vulnerability Group and already, together with Red Hat, prepared the
> embargoed security patches based on git for 11u. SAPs internal
> testing setup allows to test the changes prior to releasing them.
> This assures timely availability and high quality of these
> crucial changes for each release.
>
> I would appreciate support of the community in this role,
> and will try to consider everybody's needs in the project.
>
> Best Regards,
>   Goetz Lindenmaier
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jdk-updates-dev <jdk-updates-dev-retn at openjdk.java.net> On
> > Behalf Of Robert Mckenna
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 10:10 PM
> > To: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net
> > Subject: [17u-communication] Invitation for new maintainer
> >
> > Its that time again.
> >
> > I'm sending this mail to notify the community that the current maintainers
> > intend to step down for the JDK 17 Updates repository. [1]
> >
> > We would like to invite prospective new maintainers of the OpenJDK 17u
> > repository to step forward prior to holding a call for votes.
> >
> >     -Rob
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u/