[25u Communication] Invitation for new maintainer

[Andrew Hughes]

On 15:32 Thu 06 Nov 2025, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> 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
> 

I believe you also briefly did some maintenance work on 8u in the
early days. The OpenJDK community has benefited greatly from your
diligent work on both approvals of update PRs for the public repos and
compiling the security bundles within the vulnerability group, and I
look forward to working with you on OpenJDK 25.

Best regards,
-- 
Andrew :)
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