Election for Alex Blewitt as Committer on Eclipse Platform

I would like to nominate Alex as committer.

Alex is the author of several Eclipse plug-in and RCP development books and a known Java and Eclipse performance expert.
In 2015 he was starting the notion of improving Eclipse startup time, see for exmaple http://alblue.bandlem.com/2015/09/eclipse-optimisation-part-2.html and recently blog
about measuring bundle startup time with JFR (see http://alblue.bandlem.com/2020/02/jfr-bundle-listener.html).

Over the last years he contributed multiple patches to platform and became very active in the last months.

Alex works also in other projects, e.g, in Equinox, EGit and PDE and already helps with incoming Gerrit code reviews.
His planned work queue for 4.17 M1 is already very large with 11 bugs at this point in time: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASS…

Please join me in welcoming him.

Overview of his contributions:

vogella@spike:~/git/eclipse.platform.ui$ git shortlog --author "Alex Blewitt"
Alex Blewitt (11):
Bug 470233 - Replace new Boolean with Boolean.valueOf
Bug 476361 - Remove o.e.e4.core.commands activator
Bug 476400 - Remove JFace Activator
Bug 476364 - Refactor EventObjectSupplier to use DS
Bug 478223 - Remove SWTRenderersActivator
Bug 478226 - Remove the MWorkbenchModelActivator
Bug 478222 - Remove ServicesActivator
4.17 update of org.eclipse.urischeme
Bug 477391 - Provide a deferred way to create ImageDescriptors in JFace
Bug 475604 - DeclareImages in WorkbenchImages hits fs repeatedly
Bug 483865 - Use deferred ImageDescriptor in JFaceResources

vogella@spike:~/git/eclipse.platform.ua$ git shortlog --author "Alex Blewitt"
Alex Blewitt (1):
Bug 474070 - Replace new Boolean with Boolean.valueOf

vogella@spike:~/git/eclipse.platform.swt$ git shortlog --author "Alex Blewitt"
Alex Blewitt (1):
Bug 470568 - Replace `new Boolean` with `Boolean.valueOf`

vogella@spike:~/git/eclipse.platform.text$ git shortlog --author "Alex Blewitt"
Alex Blewitt (1):
Bug 470244 - Replace new Boolean with Boolean.valueOf

vogella@spike:~/git/eclipse.platform.debug$ git shortlog --author "Alex Blewitt"
Alex Blewitt (3):
Bug 474074 - Replace new Boolean with Boolean.valueOf
Bug 476814 - Replace Boolean.valueOf(true) and (false)
Bug 476814 - Replace new Integer() with Integer.valueOf()

vogella@spike:~/git/eclipse.platform.runtime$ git shortlog --author "Alex Blewitt"
Alex Blewitt (17):
Bug 470459 - Replace `new Boolean(t/f)` with Boolean.T/F
Bug 475417 - Optimise contenttype loading time
Bug 475417 - Remove static references from contenttype
Bug 475417 - Enable namespace aware XML parsing for contenttype
Bug 476364 - Remove BundleActivator from DI extensions
Bug 476364 - Remove BundleActivator from DI extensions
Bug 478221 - Remove ContextsActivator
Bug 477362 - Remove DIActivator
Bug 478222 - Remove ServicesActivator
Revert "Bug 475417 - Optimise contenttype startup time"
Bug 563268 - Defer SAX Parser creation until required
Bug 563262 - Convert ContentManager static methods to non-static
Bug 563537 - Remove unnecessary activator in o.e.c.expressions
Bug 564007 - Add Platform.getDebugBoolean
Bug 563262 - Migrate DebugOptions to one-off lookup
Bug 563262 - Migrate ContentTypeManager to DS
Bug 564004 - Remove CoreToolsPlugin activator