CFV: New OpenJDK 8u Reviewer: Andrew Haley

[Zhengyu Gu]

Vote: yes

-Zhengyu

On 11/22/18 2:18 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> I hereby nominate Andrew Haley [0] for the role of OpenJDK 8u Reviewer.
> 
> Andrew has been active within the OpenJDK project since its inception,
> and has led both the OpenJDK 6 & 7 projects after Oracle stood down.
> He is a current 'at large' member of the OpenJDK governing board,
> having been successfully voted into that position on a number of occasions,
> and is the lead & founder of the AArch64 project.
> 
> Most of his commits have been to OpenJDK 9 and later, thanks to the
> AArch64 project, but there are still a fair number in 8u [1] [2].
> In a similar manner to Andrew Dinn's nomination [3], his lack of reviewer
> status on OpenJDK 8 Updates, while holding it on all later releases,
> seems more a simple case of when he gained JDK reviewership -
> as the same status is conferred on to new JDK releases, but
> not retrospectively to older ones - than a lack of sufficient
> technical qualification.  With the new JDK and JDK-Updates projects
> covering all releases, this is a problem that only really applies
> to the older releases.
> 
> Votes are due by the 6th of December, 2018, at 16h00 UTC.
> 
> Only current OpenJDK 8u Reviewers [4] are eligible to vote on this
> nomination. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing
> list.
> 
> For Three-Vote Consensus voting instructions, see [5].
> 
> [0] http://openjdk.java.net/census#aph
> [1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/log?revcount=200&rev=(author(aph)+or+desc(%22aph%40redhat.com%22))+and+not+merge()
> [2] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/log?revcount=200&rev=(author(aph)+or+desc(%22aph%40redhat.com%22))+and+not+merge()
> [3] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-November/008135.html
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8u
> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#three-vote-consensus
>