[25u Communication] Invitation for new maintainer

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Hi

I would like to apply for the role as maintainer of the OpenJDK 25
Updates repository.

I am currently maintainer of the OpenJDK 17 Updates 
repository, co-maintainer of 21 and dedicate a large
part of my time to maintenance of the updates. This 
allows me to be highly available to the community and do
approvals, tagging etc in a timely manner. I am deeply
involved in backporting to the updates releases assuring
important changes arrive timely. Since 11 I have helped
to shape the updates project, setting up schedules and
processes, pushing the git traversal from mercurial etc.
Before that, I have been working on Hotspot within SAP
and, once available, on OpenJDK. I have contributed many 
changes, including the PPC64, Aix and s390 ports of SAP 
and JEP 358 "Helpful NullPointerExceptions".

With the good experiences of the past updates projects, 
I want to set up the OpenJDK 25 Updates project in a similar 
way.  The SAP Java team will help supporting the project, and
I invite IBM / Red Hat, who currently lead the 8, 11 and 21 
updates projects, to again join in the  effort. Thus, I would like
to 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 in the past, I will hold stability as the number one goal of the 
project. This includes regular updates of important aspects as
certificates, time zones, external libs etc.. I also see the need to 
eventually accept feature backports, but only if they are integrated 
carefully and the risk is acceptable.

Me and 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 17u/21u. 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.org> On Behalf Of
> Robert Mckenna
> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 4:36 PM
> To: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.org
> Subject: [25u Communication] Invitation for new maintainer
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm sending this mail to notify the community that the current maintainers
> intend to step down for the JDK 25 Updates repository. [1]
> 
> We would like to invite prospective new maintainers of the OpenJDK 25u
> repository to step forward prior to holding a call for votes.
> 
>     -Rob
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk25u