New JDK Updates Committer: William Kemper

[Langer, Christoph]

Vote: yes

/Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdk-updates-dev <jdk-updates-dev-retn at openjdk.org> On Behalf Of
> Shipilev, Aleksey
> Sent: Dienstag, 4. November 2025 10:44
> To: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.org
> Subject: CFV: New JDK Updates Committer: William Kemper
> 
> 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
> 
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