2017 Governing Board Election
The OpenJDK Governing Board oversees the structure and operation of the OpenJDK Community. It has two At-Large Members who serve for a term of one calendar year, nominally starting on the first day of April each year.
Nominations for the 2017 term were due by 23:00 UTC on Monday, 20 March 2017.
During this time any OpenJDK Member could nominate an individual who did not currently hold an appointed Governing Board seat to fill one of the At-Large seats. That individual need not already be an OpenJDK Member. An OpenJDK Member could make more than one such nomination.
Candidates
Two individuals were nominated, and each accepted his nomination. The candidates' own statements were as follows:
- Andrew Haley, Red Hat
I know that there are two at-large seats on the GB and only two people have been nominated, so this seems like a shoo-in, but I'd like you to vote for me anyway.
The GB "oversees the structure, operation, and overall health of the OpenJDK Community. It upholds and maintains the Bylaws, resolves procedural disputes, and ensures that sufficient infrastructure is available to Community members. The Governing Board has no direct authority over technical or release decisions."
The GB, then, has considerable powers and responsibility but (rather paradoxically) when the community is running smoothly there is almost nothing for it to do. It can cajole, advise, and influence the people running the teams who do the actual work, but in the end they will have their way. This is as it should be.
OpenJDK is one of the largest donations of Free Software ever made. Sun had to take a considerable risk when freeing OpenJDK, and I want Oracle to be happy that they did so. The only way to make that happen is to lighten everyone's load by sharing our efforts, thus improving the cost/benefit ratio for everyone. This also protects the long-term viability of the platform, reassuring users that OpenJDK will continue to be supported. This is a classic win-win situation.
I think we're doing OK at the moment, but things still aren't quite where I'd like them to be, and I want to continue to strengthen the relationship of trust and mutual respect between all members.
One final thing: I work for Red Hat, but I intend to represent the entire community.
Voting ends at 23:00 UTC on Tuesday, 4 April. If you're an OpenJDK Member then you're eligible to vote in this election and you should have received voting instructions via e-mail. If you haven't then please contact the Registrar for assistance.
Please vote for me.
- Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
I hope to continue my role as an advocate for continuing improvements in OpenJDK processes and mechanisms, especially as they impact the academic, research, and individual contributor communities. In particular, I look forward to helping get the new CSR (Compatibility & Specification Review) Group off to a successful start.
Results
Voting started at 23:00 UTC on Tuesday, 21 March, and ran for two weeks, ending at 23:00 UTC on Tuesday, 4 April. Secret ballots were used, per the Governing Board's direction.
There were two candidates for two open seats, so per the OpenJDK Community Bylaws this was a ratification election: Each nominee needed to be approved by a Simple Majority of those Members who voted.
The final tallies were:
Yes | No | Abstain | |
Andrew Haley | 34 | 0 | 3 |
Doug Lea | 34 | 0 | 3 |
and so both candidates were ratified.
Who could vote?
Anyone who was an OpenJDK Member at the start of the voting period:
Peter von der Ahe, Luis Miguel Alventosa, Artem Ananiev, Poonam Bajaj, Alan Bateman, Tim Bell, Deepak Bhole, Josh Bloch, Joel Borggrén-Franck, Dave Bristor, Andrew Brygin, Martin Buchholz, Alex Buckley, Dmitry Cherepanov, Brent Christian, Mandy Chung, Maurizio Cimadamore, Iris Clark, Sean Coffey, John Coomes, Joe Darcy, Daniel D. Daugherty, Laurent Daynes, Jean-Francois Denise, Dave Dice, Jeff Dinkins, Andrei Dmitriev, Mike Duigou, Clemens Eisserer, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan, Michael Fang, Doug Felt, Robert Field, Denis Fokin, Daniel Fuchs, Neal Gafter, Mikael Gerdin, Jonathan Gibbons, Jennifer Godinez, Jim Graham, Andrew Haley, Thomas Hawtin, Chris Hegarty, Erik Helin, David Holmes, Jim Holmlund, Yong Jeffrey Huang, Andrew John Hughes, Tomas Hurka, Magnus Ihse Bursie, Xiomara Jayasena, Shanliang Jiang, Yves Joan, Yuka Kamiya, Stefan Karlsson, David Katleman, Roman Kennke, Peter B. Kessler, Karen Kinnear, Kirill Kirichenko, Vladimir Kozlov, Staffan Larsen, Doug Lea, Sandra Lions-Piron, Steven Loomis, Omair Majid, Sergey Malenkov, Tom Marble, Stuart Marks, Jon Masamitsu, Eric McCorkle, Keith McGuigan, Michael McMahon, James Melvin, Alex Menkov, Sean Mullan, Igor Nekrestyanov, Yuri Nesterenko, Jeff Nisewanger, Kelly O'Hair, Masayoshi Okutsu, Bhavesh Patel, Valerie Peng, Anthony Petrov, Coleen Phillimore, Chris Phillips, Leonid Popov, Pavel Porvatov, Alexander Potochkin, Jasper Potts, Antonios Printezis, Yumin Qi, Phil Race, Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna, Paul Rank, Chuck Rasbold, Mark Reinhold, Tom Rodriguez, John R Rose, Bengt Rutisson, Vinnie Ryan, Vita Santrucek, Naoto Sato, Thomas Schatzl, Xueming Shen, Volker Simonis, Serguei Spitsyn, Kumar Srinivasan, Andreas Sterbenz, Athijegannathan Sundararajan, Anton Tarasov, Christian Thalinger, Dalibor Topic, Christian Tornqvist, Mario Torre, Alexey Ushakov, Alexey Utkin, Swamy Venkataramanappa, Igor Veresov, Konstantin Voloshin, Kevin Walls, Max Weijun Wang, Bradford Wetmore, Jesper Wilhelmsson, Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Peter Zhelezniakov.