CFV: New OpenJDK 8 Updates Committer: Jonathan Dowland

[Andrew Dinn]

Vote: yes


On 14/09/2021 03:16, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> I hereby nominate Jonathan Dowland [0] for the role of an OpenJDK 8
> Updates Committer.
> 
> Jonathan is doing active backporting work for 8u, including both clean
> backports and those that require reviews and so register under his own
> commit handle [1] [2].  Making him a committer would aid this
> backporting work by avoiding the need for someone else to sponsor &
> push his fixes.  He has already proven capable of following the
> appropriate processes and providing good quality patches.
> 
> Clean backports:
>          JDK-8249251: [dark_mode ubuntu 20.04] The selected menu is not highlighted in GTKLookAndFeel
>          JDK-8161016: Strange behavior of URLConnection with proxy
>          JDK-8152077: (cal) Calendar.roll does not always roll the hours during daylight savings changes
>          JDK-8078614: WindowsClassicLookAndFeel : MetalComboBoxUI.getbaseLine fails with IllegalArgumentException
>          JDK-8258043: [TEST BUG]: java/awt/print/PageFormat/PDialogTest.java needs update by removing a infinite loop
>          JDK-8168517: java/lang/ProcessBuilder/Basic.java failed with "java.lang.AssertionError: Some tests failed"
>          JDK-6574989: TEST_BUG: javax/sound/sampled/Clip/bug5070081.java fails sometimes
>          JDK-8226697: Several tests which need the @key headful keyword are missing it.
>          JDK-8262731: [macOS] Exception from "Printable.print" is swallowed during "PrinterJob.print"
>          JDK-8177393: Result of RescaleOp for 4BYTE_ABGR images may be 25% black
>          JDK-8080287: closed bug, pre-requisite for JDK-8177393, wrote RFA
> 
> Unclean backports, requiring review:
>          JDK-8244154: Update SunPKCS11 provider with PKCS11 v3.0 header files
>          JDK-8252384: [TESTBUG] Some tests refer to COMPAT provider rather than JRE
>          JDK-8038723: Open up some PrinterJob tests
>          JDK-8227006: [linux] Runtime.availableProcessors execution time increased by factor of 100
>          JDK-8183369: RFC unconformity of HttpURLConnection with proxy
>          JDK-8187450: JNI local refs exceeds capacity warning in NetworkInterface::getAll
> 
> Votes are due by 19h00 UTC on Tuesday, 28th of September, 2021.
> 
> Only current OpenJDK 8 Updates Committers (and above) [2] 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 [3].
> 
> [0] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdowland
> [1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/jdk/log?revcount=200&rev=(author(jdowland)+or+desc(%22jdowland%40redhat.com%22))+and+not+merge()
> [2] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/hotspot/log?revcount=200&rev=(author(jdowland)+or+desc(%22jdowland%40redhat.com%22))+and+not+merge()
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8u
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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regards,


Andrew Dinn
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