CFV: New JDK8 Committer: Mark Sheppard

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Oct 24 07:33:06 PDT 2013


I hereby nominate Mark Sheppard (msheppar) to JDK8 Committer.

Mark is currenly an author on the JDK8 project. He has been working on 
the JDK for more than a year, and contributing many signifcant changes, 
in quite intricate areas of code. Of most note has been his feedback and 
review of the Base64 API, resolution of comformance issues with 
NetworkInterface, and improvments in the corba area. For a full list of 
changes, see below.

Votes are due by November 7, 2013.

Only current JDK8 Committers [1] are eligible to vote on this nomination.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].

-Chris.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/census
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote

Changesets:

8002390: (zipfs) Problems moving files between zip file systems
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/729ca1ef7c75

6458027: Disabling IPv6 on a specific network interface causes problems
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/db0fc2b71298

8024675: java/net/NetworkInterface/UniqueMacAddressesTest.java fails on 
Windows
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/c53411f89b4c

8021372: NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces() returns duplicate 
hardware address
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/4fd7abaf0a5f

8021257: com.sun.corba.se.** should be on restricted package list
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/6f9515a9519f
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/corba/rev/52ad44f9a3ec

8011157: Improve CORBA portablility
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/5a14ecd30b4e
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/corba/rev/81d694b1ab2f
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/rev/af87dabb4263

8022940: Enhance CORBA translations
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/corba/rev/9c75c61d97f8

8023326: [TESTBUG] java/net/CookieHandler/LocalHostCookie.java misplaced 
try/finally
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/02064634bc88

8007799: Base64.getEncoder(0, byte[]) returns an encoder that 
unexpectedly inserts line separators
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/73793f2af80a

8007373: Inet6Address serialization incompatibility
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/49d6596100db

8005406: HTTP server implementation should use Base64 API
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/4b012af44f24

8006153: HTTP protocol handler authenication should use Base64 API
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/7db04ae3378f

8003890: corelibs test scripts should pass TESTVMOPTS
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/ae5d04dbacd6


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