[technology-pmc] Committer Election for Irwin D' Souza on Eclipse O

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A committer election for Irwin D'Souza on project Eclipse OMR
(technology.omr) was started by Daryl Maier with this criteria:

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

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

Election:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.omr/elections/election-irwin-dsouza-committer-eclipse-omr

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