CFV: New JDK7u Committer: Mike Swingler

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> 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.

Thanks for this.  Much appreciated.

> 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.

I saw plenty of Reviewed-by attributions but few authorships, which
was puzzling.

My reading is that we can then nominate him to Reviewer status once
he's a committer.  Is that correct?  It's just a matter of jumping
through the right hoops :-)

> 
> And yes, he is now listed as Mac OS X Port Project Lead:
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/census#swingler

And thus has Reviewer status implicitly on that project.

> 
> 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,
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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