jmtd → java → timeline

2018

• moved to Red Hat's OpenJDK team

2019

• Become OpenJDK Contributor (Signed OCA); attend OpenJDK Committer Workshop

2020

July

• first 8u backport RFR

November

• Become jdk8u Author

2021

• First jdk11u backport (sort-of)
• First patch in JDK tip (adapted from someone else's work); shipped in JDK 17
• CFV: New OpenJDK 8 Updates Committer: Jonathan Dowland
  • CFV passes,become committer
• Second patch in JDK upstream tip (cf) (1^st all my work)
• first jdk17u backport merged
• first use of Committer powers (jdk8u-dev/jdk changeset push)

2022

• became Committer in the JDK Updates project