CFV: New JDK8 Committer Brent Christian (bchristi)

Daniel Fuchs daniel.fuchs at oracle.com
Fri Sep 27 00:55:59 PDT 2013


Vote: Yes

-- daniel

On 9/26/13 11:18 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> I hereby nominate Brent Christian to jdk8 Committer.
>
> Brent has been working on the core libraries for a little less than a year but has tackled some significant problems including the initial re-write of HashMap in Java 8 to replace alternative hashing. He's also been contributing platform code for Mac OS.
>
> Changesets (in jdk8/jdk repo):
>
> hg log -M -u bchristi --template "{desc}\n" | grep "^[0-9]\{7,7\}: "
>
> 8025173: HashMap.put() replacing an existing key can trigger a resize()
> 7199674: (props) user.home property does not return an accessible location in sandboxed environment [macosx]
> 8024009: Remove jdk.map.useRandomSeed system property
> 8011194: Apps launched via double-clicked .jars have file.encoding value of US-ASCII on Mac OS X
> 8010325: Remove hash32() method and hash32 int field from java.lang.String
> 8005698: Handle Frequent HashMap Collisions with Balanced Trees
> 8006039: test/tools/launcher/I18NJarTest.java fails on Mac w/ LANG=C, LC_ALL=C
> 8005962: TEST_BUG: java/util/Properties/MacJNUEncoding can fail in certain environments
> 8003228: (props) sun.jnu.encoding should be set to UTF-8 [macosx]
> 7178922: (props) re-visit how os.name is determined on Mac
>
> Votes are due by 2359 UTC, October 10, 2013.
>
> Only current jdk8 Committers [1] are eligible to vote on this nomination. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>
> -Mike
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote



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