CFV: New JDK9 Committer: Dmitriy Ermashov

[Yuri Nesterenko]

On 08/13/2014 06:47 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2014/8/13 4:57 -0700, yuri.nesterenko at oracle.com:
>> I hereby nominate Dmitriy Ermashov (dermashov) to JDK9 Committer.
>>
>> Dmitriy is a member of Java SQE team.
>> He has contributed to several testing-related GUI OpenJDK
>> projects. A list of his changesets has, so far, 11 items:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/client/jdk/rev/fa382ba1a8a7
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/db1d1894985c
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/c6a4534a458d
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/8af305206840
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/b2304c83a42d
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/ca9cc86574c1
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/f51d560f6190
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/c35d0a40b6e1
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/c904d2c4425d
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/320dd90143c2
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/0d65f6942ae9
>
> Nearly all of these changesets appear simply to be transfers of
> existing tests from Oracle-internal suites to the JDK 9 forest.
>
> Do you really think these count as "significant" contributions?
>
> - Mark
>
Mark,

first of all, it's not exactly transfer but rather refactoring.
Some of the patches are huge but still much much smaller than
prototypes, and more stable and useful for jdk9.
So the work is commendable in any case.

Another question is, how much JDK9 need stable tests, who is going
to maintain them and how, technically. Answer may be, and is to me,
just about the same as to your question; yes, it is significant,
useful and ongoing contribution -- humble but indispensable.

Thank you,
-yan

PS: unfortunately I cannot attach here a link to the previous state
of these tests to prove my first thesis but I can provide it
to you personally if you wish. They are still in use with jdk8.