CFV: New JDK 9 Committer: Jamil Nimeh

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Mon Mar 23 21:07:04 UTC 2015


I hereby nominate Jamil Nimeh to JDK 9 Committer.

Jamil is a member of the Security Libraries Team at Oracle and has 
contributed 11 changesets (see below for list) to JDK 9 in the security 
libraries area. He has an extensive background in security technologies 
and has been especially helpful with fixes in the TLS/SSL area. He is 
also working on a JEP for OCSP Stapling.

Votes are due by April 6, 2015 22:00 GMT.

Only current JDK 9 Committers [1] are eligible to vote on this 
nomination.  Votes must be cast in the open by replying to to this 
mailing list.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].

--Sean Mullan

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/census
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote

Changesets (in jdk9/jdk repo):

6996377: shrink duplicate code in the constructor of PKIXValidator
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/013ac43d9800

8046368: Code cleanup in SeedGenerator.java
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/e313c083fbb6

8015081: javax.security.auth.Subject.toString() throws NPE
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/36a0438a6631

8054366: Broken link in SecureRandom.html
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/7b0cf7128e6d

8046656: Update protocol support
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/e00af1714678

8057555: Less cryptic cipher suite management
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/791e4813f3fc

8032573: 
CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509").generateCertificates(InputStream) does 
not throw CertificateException for invalid input
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/882f47790152

8058912: Broken link (access denied error) to http://www.rsasecurity.com 
in RC5ParameterSpec
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/9095c6b4bedd

8044860: Vectors and fixed length fields should be verified for allowed 
sizes.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/41b3e91dc2b2

8074064: OCSPResponse.SingleResponse objects do not parse singleExtensions
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/a5d7d7d2d888

6996366: convert MacAlg to an enum
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/dff305b1ae9b


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