New JDK Updates Committer: William Kemper

Ramakrishna, Ramki ysr at amazon.com
Tue Nov 4 18:58:51 UTC 2025



Vote: yes

/ Ramki  (ysr: openjdk)

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


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