Call for Lead Maintainers – GraalVM Backports Repositories

[alina-yur]

TL;DR

To express your interest in becoming the Lead Maintainer of community backports, please send an email to graalvm-maintainers_ww_grp@oracle.com until June 10th, 2024.

Background

GraalVM Community Edition follows the release model of OpenJDK. GraalVM CE for JDK 17 and JDK 21 will soon no longer receive CPU releases, but there's interest in the community in maintaining the corresponding sources for other GraalVM distributions. To support this community request, we as the GraalVM team at Oracle Labs have created two repositories:

https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk21-community-backports
https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk17-community-backports

We are inviting GraalVM community members to step up as a Lead Maintainer of those repositories. Please send an email to graalvm-maintainers_ww_grp@oracle.com. Lead Maintainers will oversee community backports and version-specific bug fixes. They can also invite other community maintainers to join them.

The repositories are intended to maintain source code, that can be used by the community to produce builds than can be then used by community members and vendors to produce their builds and distribute them via distribution platforms.

Upon community request, we will also create such repositories for upcoming Java versions.

We will review all requests and provide an update in this ticket.

[jerboaa]

@alina-yur Thanks for starting this process. Much appreciated!

Quick clarification: Is Oracle still maintaining any one of these repos (as of today) or are are they both looking for new community maintainers? I think we've established that https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk17-community-backports is in need of a maintainer as of now. Not sure what the situation with the JDK 21 repo is. Thanks!

[alina-yur]

Hi @jerboaa. While the older binaries for GraalVM CE for Java 21 remain available for download, they are not receiving security patches any more. Therefore, it is recommended to either upgrade to GraalVM CE for Java 22 or Oracle GraalVM for Java 21. So yes, the same applies to the JDK 21 repo.

[jerboaa]

Thanks for the clarification!

[alina-yur]

Hi everyone, I want to give a quick status update. We have received several requests from potential maintainers; so to proceed with this, we will close the applications on June 10th, 2024.
So if you are interested in becoming the lead maintainer, please send us an email until then. Thank you!