CFV: New OpenJDK8 Reviewer: Omair Majid

[Mike Duigou]

Vote: YES

On Apr 8 2013, at 13:56 , Andrew Hughes wrote:

> I hereby nominate Omair Majid for the position of OpenJDK 8 reviewer.
> 
> Omair has been working on OpenJDK since his internship at Red Hat in May 2008,
> and has continued doing so after obtaining full-time employment in June 2010.
> In this time, he has committed many changesets to OpenJDK (the commit logs for
> the OpenJDK 8 tree show 24) and innumerable ones to the IcedTea [1] and
> IcedTea-Web [2] projects.  He's also reviewed many patches for other developers
> and contributed patches at the level of GNU/Linux distribution packaging.
> 
> Recently, he has been hard at work on making the OpenJDK 8 build amenable to
> GNU/Linux distributions, resulting in three approved changesets in the last
> month alone.  I feel his skills as a reviewer would be very beneficial in this
> area as he has much experience in working with build systems via IcedTea, and
> is familiar with issues which apply to our builds but not to those of Oracle.
> 
> Votes are due by Apr 22, 2013, 21:00 UTC.
> 
> Only current OpenJDK 8 reviewers [3] are eligible to vote on this nomination.
> 
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].
> 
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/icedtea
> [2] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#reviewer-vote
> -- 
> Andrew :)
> 
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> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
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