CFV: New OpenJDK Members Group Member: Viktor Klang

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

Vote: Yes
/Jesper

> On 26 Feb 2026, at 20:28, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hi everybody,
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> I hereby nominate Viktor Klang [1] to Membership in the OpenJDK Members Group.
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> Viktor is a Reviewer in the JDK Project, a Committer in the Leyden Project, and a member of the Core Libraries Group.
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> Viktor joined the JDK team more than three years ago after an illustrious career in the Scala world. Since joining the JDK team, he has led the Stream Gatherers JEP [2], he has made major contributions to the Structured Concurrency JEP [3], and he has taken over maintenance of the Streams library and the java.util.concurrent package. He is currently working on Marshalling, which we hope will eventually replace Java's classic serialization mechanism.
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> Votes are due by Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 23:59 UTC.
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> Only current members of the OpenJDK Members Group [4] are eligible to vote on this nomination. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
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> For Three-Vote Consensus voting instructions, see [5].
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> s'marks
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> [1]: https://openjdk.org/census#vklang
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> [2]: https://openjdk.org/jeps/485
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> [3]: https://openjdk.org/jeps/525
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> [4]: https://openjdk.org/census#members
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> [5]: https://openjdk.org/groups/#member-vote
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