2019 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 2019 term were due by 23:00 UTC on Tuesday, 12 March 2019.
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'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.
There's one thing I have to mention, the proverbial elephant in the room, so I might as well put it up front: the upcoming acquisition of Red Hat, my employer, by IBM. I don't know anything about the deal beyond what is public. However, there is one potential issue: IBM has a permanent seat on the OpenJDK Governing Board. Some of you may feel that for IBM to have two GB seats would be excessive.
I have always done my best to represent the entire OpenJDK community on the Board, and my employer supports this approach. In my opinion there's no conflict: it's in Red Hat, IBM, and everyone else's best interests to have a transparent and well-functioning open project. However, if, post-acquisition, there are voiced concerns about a conflict of interest between my being employed by IBM and my role representing the community, I'll defer to the rest of the board to decide what to do.
We've seen some dramatic changes in the OpenJDK project over the last year, in particular the community takeover of OpenJDK 8 and 11 updates. This represents a very significant transfer of control (and work!). It is not an easy transition and there is a great deal to do, but I am confident that it'll be a success. It is a sign of how far we've come as a community.
Finally, I'll repeat what I seem to say every year:
My goals remain 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.
- 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. Among upcoming possibilities, we should review rules and procedures for those that have sometimes led to more time and effort spent dealing with process than software development, and consider improvements.
Results
Voting started at 23:00 UTC on Wednesday, 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 | 56 | 0 | 0 |
| Doug Lea | 55 | 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, Brian Goetz, 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, Erik Joelsson, 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, Goetz Lindenmaier, 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, Chris Plummer, 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, Vicente Romero, 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, Thomas Stuefe, Athijegannathan Sundararajan, Anton Tarasov, Christian Thalinger, Dalibor Topic, Christian Tornqvist, Mario Torre, Alexey Ushakov, Alexey Utkin, Swamy Venkataramanappa, Igor Veresov, Mikael Vidstedt, Konstantin Voloshin, Kevin Walls, Max Weijun Wang, Roland Westrelin, Bradford Wetmore, Jesper Wilhelmsson, Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Peter Zhelezniakov.
