Election for Irwin D'Souza as Committer on Eclipse OMR

Irwin D'Souza has been an active contributor to the Eclipse OMR project since its inception in 2016.  Irwin has deep knowledge of many of the important ancillary areas of the compiler technology.  In particular, he is the expert in the compiler's complex memory allocation code and ahead of time compilation and relocation infrastructure, and has deep knowledge of the implementation of the code cache, compilation control, compilation exceptions, and compiler initialization and shutdown phases.  Irwin has been active in reviewing and guiding the design to contribute a language agnostic AOT solution into OMR [1], leading the effort to prototype ideas to simplify the design of the compiler's allocator infrastructure [2], and refactoring the compiler code to make it more language-agnostic.  He has contributed detailed documentation on the compiler's memory manager [3], system calling conventions on each architecture [4], and compile-time exception semantics [5].  The Eclipse OMR project would benefit from a committer with deep knowledge in all these areas.

Irwin is an active contributor to the Eclipse OMR project in many ways.  He has personally authored 34 pull requests, and has repeatedly demonstrated thoroughness in his implementation, quality, and documentation of each of those commits.  He has also participated in the review of over 70 pull requests from other contributors and provided input to 36 issues.  When his expertise is explicitly sought by other committers or contributors for a code review, his reviews are timely and thorough.  Often, such a request is not needed as Irwin is proactive in providing quality reviews for pull requests within his domain of expertise.  His comments always reflect respect for contributors and professionalism.  Irwin also monitors and provides timely responses to questions asked on the Eclipse OMR Slack workspace, particularly in areas dealing with memory allocation, ahead of time compilation, infrastructure, and problem diagnostic techniques.  He is a regular participant in the OMR Architecture Meetings and offers thoughtful opinions and insight in the discussions.  Each of Irwin's contributions to Eclipse OMR reflect the ideals of the project and a desire to continually improve it.

I believe Irwin is an excellent candidate to become a committer in the Eclipse OMR project.

[1] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/pull/4557
[2] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/issues/4783
[3] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/pull/2003
[4] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/pull/5254
[5] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/pull/1741