CFV: New JDK8 Committer Brian Burkhalter (bpb)

[Alan Bateman]

Vote: yes

To add to Mike's comments, this may be the first time where "significant 
contributions" is interpreted to include the huge effort required to 
coordinate, verify, and shepherd in a complex set patches and new 
algorithms. Those on core-libs-dev will be very familiar with the 
significant and wonderfully visible effort that Brian has put in over 
the last few months to work through the backlog of patches from the 
numerics community and bring the patches into the jdk8 project.