CFV: New JDK7u Committer: Mike Swingler

[Artem Ananiev]

On 3/12/2012 11:43 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> I hereby nominate Mike Swingler (OpenJDK user name: swingler) to
>> JDK7u
>> Committer.
>>
>> I don't think any more information about Mike should be provided
>> here,
>> we all know Mike's contribution to Java.
>>
>
> I don't for one, so it would be nice to have a short summary.  When
> myself and others were nominated for OpenJDK membership, we did provide
> details, despite there being copious evidence on the mailing lists.
>
> I see his name (with many others) on one JDK changeset:
>
> 7113349: Initial changset for Macosx port to jdk7u
>
> so I presume he's done significant work on the Mac OS X port, but it isn't
> clear how much of this is Mike's contribution.
>
> I would like to be sure before voting "Yes" as the bylaws state
> "As a rough guide, for any given Project, a Contributor should make at
> least eight significant contributions before being nominated."

I'm open to provide more info about Mike, sorry for not doing that in my 
initial email. His team at Apple has been responsible for all Apple JDKs 
for several years now. When we started Mac OS X Port project, they 
contributed most of the Mac-specific code from their JDK6 and also 
provided all the required SPIs (e.g. JavaRuntimeSupport framework) in 
Mac OS X to implement everything else. Mike personally reviews many 
fixes sent for review to the macosx-port-dev alias, so he actually 
should be nominated to Reviewer, but it would be against OpenJDK bylaws.

And yes, he is now listed as Mac OS X Port Project Lead:

http://openjdk.java.net/census#swingler

Thanks,

Artem

>> Votes are due by Mar 26, 2012.
>>
>> Only current JDK7u Committers [1] are eligible to vote on this
>> nomination.
>>
>> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Artem
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk7u
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects#committer-vote
>>
>
> Thanks,