[openj9-dev] Committer Election for Hang Shao on Eclipse OpenJ9™ has sta

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A committer election for Hang Shao on project Eclipse OpenJ9™
(technology.openj9) was started by Tobi Ajila with this criteria:

Hang Shao has been an active contributor to the Eclipse OpenJ9 project since
its inception [1]. He has been primarily working on the core runtime of the
JVM. He is a recognized expert in class loading and Shared Classes Cache
(SCC) technology. He has been involved in all the OpenJ9 releases with
significant contributions to the new features including multi-layer SCC,
default SCC, fat jar class sharing and startup hints sharing, which have
improved OpenJ9’s performance on startup time and memory footprint. He has
also made major contributions to the OpenJ9 implementation of JEP 371-Hidden
Classes and JEP 390-Warning for Value-Based Classes.

Hang is currently leading the effort of project Valhalla [2] in OpenJ9. This
project involves complex changes to almost all components of the JVM,
including the interpreter, JIT, GC, JCL and tooling. Hang is mentoring junior
developers and collaborating with contributors across multiple teams to
ensure that the OpenJ9 implementation is compatible and up to date with the
latest JVM specifications. His efforts include designing, writing, and
reviewing the implementation as well as the test plan. He constantly
collaborates with committers to ensure these Valhalla changes are accepted by
OpenJ9.

Hang has been active in the OpenJ9 community activities. He regularly attends
weekly community meetings and has given lightning talk on JEP371 [3]. He has
provided timely responses to questions in his area of expertise in the OpenJ9
slack channel. He has authored 5 OpenJ9 blog posts introducing new features
of OpenJ9 [4]. He has also reviewed and provided feedback to several OpenJ9
blog posts before the publication. Moreover, he has published several
technical articles advertising the advanced features of OpenJ9 [5][6].

Hang has been very involved in the Eclipse OpenJ9 project. He has made 207
commits (20,722 ++  57,801 --) to the project [7]. He has also mentored 5+
new contributors to the project. He has contributed his expertise to the
project through comments/feedback in over 500 issues and pull requests [8].

[1] https://github.com/hangshao0
[2] https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQP5MdFEIy4
[4] https://blog.openj9.org/tag/sharedclasses/
[5] https://dzone.com/articles/class-sharing-in-eclipse-openj9
[6]
https://dzone.com/articles/class-sharing-in-eclipse-openj9-how-to-improve-mem
[7] https://github.com/hangshao0/openj9/graphs/contributors
[8] https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/issues?q=commenter%3Ahangshao0

It is my pleasure to nominate Hang as a committer on Eclipse OpenJ9™.

Eclipse OpenJ9™ project committers can click the election link below to
vote.

Election:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.openj9/elections/election-hang-shao-committer-eclipse-openj9%E2%84%A2

Project: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.openj9