[equinox-dev] Committer Election for Mykola Nikishov on Eclipse Equinox

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A committer election for Mykola Nikishov on project Eclipse Equinox
(eclipse.equinox) was started by Alexander Kurtakov with this criteria:

Mykola has been contributing to Equinox for years and he has 78(!) patches in
p2 repo. He has been the person bringing p2 out of the unsecure MD5 checksums
and helps keep the maintainability of the codebase. List of contributions
are:
       List childs' URI in composite repositories' toString()
       Prevent NPE in DebugHelper's formatParameters method
       Extract method to calculate repository factories' order
       Bug 471875 - [IconExe] Improve error message when launcher's icons has
not been replaced
       Bug 490028 - Extract MD5 checksum calculation into a separate class
       Bug 336246 - Remove the metadata generator
       Bug 494822 - Pass a range specification unconditionally
       Rename comparatorPoint constant to follow Java naming conventions
       Bug 490028 - Extract MD5 checksum calculation into a separate class
       Add tests for IPublisherInfo.A_NO_MD5 contract
       Bug 493193 - MirrorApplication should explicitly use MD5 artifact
comparator
       Bug 493193 - MirrorApplication should explicitly use MD5 artifact
comparator
       Prefer an enhanced for statement over the basic one
       Ignore Tycho plugins unsupported by M2E
       Fix 'always true' assertion
       [jdt settings] Unused local variable is an error
       Prefer an enhanced for statement over the basic one
       Reason for failed assert that the log file doesn't contain message
       Make Tycho's compiler use configuration from
.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
       Assert that two object arrays are equal with JUnit's
assertArrayEquals(Object[], Object[])
       Replace assertTrue with assertThat
       Convert plain text in javadoc to a link
       Bug 509401 - Clean up ChecksumProducer's computeMD5(File)
       Bug 509401 - Don't hide I/O problems in ChecksumProducer's
computeMD5(File)
       Bug 509401 - Create an artifact descriptor for a directory
       Bug 423715 - Rename checksum-related constants in
SimpleArtifactRepository
       Fix javadoc on return value of LocationProperties's
getArtifactFactorySearchOrder()
       Some mirroring tests use wrong Messages
       Bug 518850 - Replace RepositoryDescriptor with repository location
       Reuse existing ctor
       Bug 518031 - Throw exception if unable to create a secured XML factory
       Bug 423715 - Add SHA256 to p2 metadata publishing
       Bug 423715 - Check MD5Verifier's status before using it
       Bug 423715 - Encapsulate checks performed during MD5Verifier creation
       Bug 423715 - ArtifactRepositoryValidator should catch IAE in order to
throw ProvisionException
       Bug 423715 - Extract methods in ArtifactComparatorFactory
       Bug 423715 - ArtifactRepositoryValidator reports original cause
       Bug 423715 - ArtifactComparatorFactory reports available comparators
       Bug 423715 - More javadoc for ArtifactComparatorFactory
       Bug 423715 - Use enhanced loop in MD5Verifier
       Bug 423715 - Replace StringBuffer with StringBuilder in MD5Verifier
       Bug 507657 - Refactor AbstractRepositoryManager's loadIndexFile(URI,
String, IProgressMonitor)
       Bug 531354 - Restore binary compatibility of publisher.eclipse bundle
       Bug 423715 - Support multiple algorithms for artifact checksums
       Bug 423715  - Really preserve legacy MD5 properties
       Bug 531606 - RequiredCapability introduced binary-incompatible changes
       Bug 532118 - Reduce number of calls to
java.security.MessageDigest.update(byte)
       Bug 532118 - Eliminate exception when checking if buffer is full in
MessageDigestProcessingStep
       Extract method to get artifact repositories in DownloadManager
       Refactor internal MirrorSelector's computeMirrors(String,
IProgressMonitor)
       Refactor internal MirrorSelector's computeMirrors(String,
IProgressMonitor)
       Refactor internal MirrorSelector's computeMirrors(String,
IProgressMonitor)
       Nothing to return from MirrorSelector's initMirrors method
       Fix typo in MirrorSelector's initMirrors(IProgressMonitor) javadoc
       Photon target platform - use /releases/photon p2 repository
       Default target for master branch
       Fix typo in IArtifactDescriptor.*_CHECKSUM javadocs
       Bug 536326 - Improve messages in MirrorRequestTest's
testFailToCanonical
       Bug 536326 - Report ARTIFACT_PROCESSING_ERROR from pack200 processing
step
       Bug 536326 - Add failing test w/mirrors into MirrorRequestTest
       Reuse ChecksumHelper.MD5 constant
       Fix setup for ImportExportTests
       Switch default target platform file to 4.10-I builds
       Bug 535897 - Run tests from org.eclipse.equinox.p2.tests.optimizers
       Simplify ChecksumUtilities' getLegacyMd5Verifier(String)
       [RFC] Bug 536282 - Check whether processing step is available
       Uncomment tests in ProcessingStepHandlerTest
       Make MessageDigestProcessingStep's methods final
       Close HTML tag in artifactChecksums.exsd
       Bug 536282 - Check whether processing step is available
       Contribute MD5 via artifactChecksums extension point instead of
MD5Verifier processing step
       Switch default target file to 4.11
       Bug 542960 - NPE in InitialSharedInstall's cleanupDotEclipseFolder()
when '~/.eclipse/' doesn't exist
       Test for skip checksum logic in ChecksumUtilities' 
getChecksumVerifiers
       Bug 543024 - Initialize ChecksumVerifier as ProcessingStep
       Bug 543047 - ChecksumVerifier should read checksum from processing 
step
descriptor's data only
       Remove unused parameter from SimpleArtifactRepository's private method
       Remove unused parameters from Engine's checkArguments private method


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