2018 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 2018 term were due by 23:00 UTC on Monday, 12 March 2018.
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
It's that time of year again. I've been an elected member of the OpenJDK Governing Board for as long as there has been one, and I am very grateful to the people who have supported me over the years.
Working on OpenJDK can be tricky. There are still significant issues and potential for conflict between people pushing for new features and the crucial need to maintain a stable code base for enterprise-quality deployment. Of course I want OpenJDK to be a truly open project, and we need to encourage as many external contributors as we can, but somehow we have to do that without breaking anything. The new time-based release cadence is a huge deal and we're still getting used to it, but I am convinced that in the long run it'll help a great deal.
This year sees another significant change: we're finally setting up the Vulnerability Group. Mark Reinhold and I first discussed this about five years ago, and I'm sure that neither of us expected it to take this long, but this is truly worth celebrating.
As I said a few years ago:
My goals remains what they have always been: for OpenJDK to be a truly open free software project, to remove barriers caused by process and administrative overheads, and for everyone, especially newcomers, to be able easily to contribute in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
We've come a long way, but there's some way to go. I ask for your support as an OpenJDK Governing Board at-large member so that I can continue to encourage the board to do the Right Thing.
- 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. After the introduction of the last pieces of the initial list of needed open process components over the past year (Compatibility review, Vulnerability, Testing), we should evaluate how well they are working and whether any further changes or additions are needed.
Results
Voting started at 23:00 UTC on Tuesday, 13 March, and ran for two weeks, ending at 23:00 UTC on Tuesday, 27 March. 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 | 50 | 0 | 2 |
| Doug Lea | 51 | 0 | 1 |
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, Kim Barrett, 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, Andrew Dinn, 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, Markus Grönlund, 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, Ioi Lam, Staffan Larsen, Jim Laskey, Doug Lea, Per Liden, Sandra Lions-Piron, Steven Loomis, Omair Majid, Sergey Malenkov, Tom Marble, Stuart Marks, Jon Masamitsu, Eric McCorkle, Keith McGuigan, Rob McKenna, 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, Roger Riggs, Tom Rodriguez, John R Rose, Bengt Rutisson, Vinnie Ryan, Vita Santrucek, Naoto Sato, Thomas Schatzl, Xueming Shen, Aleksey Shipilev, 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, Roland Westrelin, Bradford Wetmore, Jesper Wilhelmsson, Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Peter Zhelezniakov.
