Resigning as PowerPC/AIX Port Project Lead

[Volker Simonis]

I hereby resign as PowerPC/AIX Port Project Lead.

The PowerPC/AIX Port [1] was proposed almost exactly 9 years ago [2].
It was the first externally contributed, full OpenJDK port and paved
the way for subsequent porting projects like aarch64 and s390. It was
also the beginning of a fruitful cooperation between SAP, IBM and
Oracle who have all contributed to the success of this project.

While PowerPC and especially AIX can still be seen as "niche"
platforms, the presence of the PowerPC/AIX Port in the OpenJDK main
line has helped to considerably improve and streamline the whole code
base. I hope this mutually beneficial collaboration will continue in
the future and would like to propose Martin Doerr (mdoerr [3]) as new
Project Lead.

Martin is a true PowerPC/Itanium expert and a real memory model
wizard. He's a long term member of the SAP JVM team, an OpenJDK
Reviewer and a member of the OpenJDK HotSpot and Members Groups [3].

In the end, and according to the OpenJDK Bylaws, the Lead of the
sponsoring group (Dalibor Topic from the Porters Group) needs to
assign a new Project Lead [4]. I for myself can't think of any better
candidate and warmly recommend Martin for this position.

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/PPCAIXPort
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2012-May/000125.html
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#mdoerr
[4] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead