CFV: New JDK Updates Committer: William Kemper

[Volker Simonis]

Vote: yes

On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM Shipilev, Aleksey <shipilev at amazon.de> wrote:
>
> I hereby nominate William Kemper [1] to JDK Updates Committer.
>
> William is part of Amazon JDK team, and the key engineer in Shenandoah project. As such, he is responsible for many Shenandoah related backports [2]. Granting William the role of JDK Updates Committer will help Shenandoah project streamline their backport commits. William is already the Reviewer in JDK mainline.
>
> Votes are due by November 21, 0800 UTC.
>
> Only current JDK Updates Committers (and above) [3] are eligible to vote on this nomination.
>
> Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
> [1] https://openjdk.org/census#wkemper
> [2] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk25u+repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk21u-dev+repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk17u-dev+repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk11u-dev+repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk8u-dev+author%3Aearthling-amzn+label%3Aintegrated&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=desc&p=1
> [3] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk-updates
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Amazon Web Services Development Center Germany GmbH
> Tamara-Danz-Str. 13
> 10243 Berlin
> Geschaeftsfuehrung: Christian Schlaeger, Christof Hellmis
> Eingetragen am Amtsgericht Charlottenburg unter HRB 257764 B
> Sitz: Berlin
> Ust-ID: DE 365 538 597