[8u communication] Call for new maintainers

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Nov 22 10:21:32 UTC 2018


On 11/21/18 5:44 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> To help transition this Project to a new Lead, I'd like to invite new 
> non Oracle participants to help in maintainer duties. The primary duty 
> involved from here on is reviewing and making approval decisions on 
> incoming requests which will ultimately end up in the next, non Oracle 
> led, release of this Project (post release of JDK 8u202).

That sounds sensible.

> Any candidates putting themselves forward for this role should 
> demonstrate an active history with the Project and should ideally give 
> some background history on their involvement in the Project to date.
> 
> If new maintainers are added, an announcement will be made via the 
> Project mailing list.

I've not been very active in jdk8u, but I lead the 7u project.
I am a jdk8u committer but not a reviewer. I will apply to be a
reviewer.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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