[technology-pmc] Project Lead election for Daryl Maier on Eclipse OMR

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A project lead election for Daryl Maier on project Eclipse OMR
(technology.omr) was started by Mark Stoodley with this criteria:

I am nominating Daryl Maier [1] as a lead for the Eclipse OMR project. Daryl
was one of the original OMR committers when the Eclipse OMR project was
created and has been one of the most active members of our community in
supporting and promoting OMR. He has been the primary guiding hand behind the
OMR compiler component’s evolution since its contribution in September
2016. He is one of the most active committers in the project (#2 since March
2016 [2] ) but, beyond the numbers, he has delivered many complex code
refactoring and architectural improvements to the OMR project (often in
conjunction with the OpenJ9 project) and continues to drive the compiler
component towards a more language agnostic design point. He provides
comprehensive, thoughtful, professional and timely reviews for a wide variety
of pull requests. Not only does he provide feedback himself, but he seeks out
the best people to provide additional feedback on reviews to ensure the
project high quality bar continues to be met.

But Daryl's influence is much broader than one component. He has initiated,
organized and led design discussions that cross several of the major
components of OMR including the port library, the garbage collector, parts of
the VM componentry, as well as many deeply technical discussions on the
compiler component. He started the biweekly OMR compiler architecture meeting
which grew into the OMR architecture meeting, where the project now regularly
and openly discusses designs for all OMR components [3]. Daryl records these
meetings and makes them available on Youtube (e.g. [4] ) for replay and for
broader, open access.

Throughout the history of the OMR project, even extending to the days before
the project was created [5], Daryl has been and continues to be a staunch
supporter and advocate for the OMR project. He has delivered numerous
external presentations and written articles that broaden awareness of and
promote the OMR project [6][7]. He was one of the primary organizers of the
TURBO workshop at SPLASH 2018 [8] and continues to organize the annual
“Advances in Open Runtimes Technologies” workshop [9] at CASCON to help
academic researchers and students better understand how OMR works and to
promote research and projects that use and enhance OMR. He has been an
advisor for several OMR based research projects [10][11][12][13][14]. He has
mentored and coached young developers (e.g. [15]) in their use of the OMR
project, and is frequently a first responder when people ask questions in the
Eclipse OMR slack channels. Daryl himself has successfully mentored and
nominated several OMR committers [16][17][18] and frequently discusses OMR
issues of strategy, governance, and approach with existing project leads.

As Charlie and I have been less actively leading the project in recent years,
Daryl has been stepping forward to act as a project lead for the Eclipse OMR
project and strongly deserves the formal recognition of the role. I believe
Daryl will take the responsibility of the project lead role seriously, will
continue to act in the best interests of the OMR project, and will help to
propel the project forward. I strongly recommend Daryl Maier be elected as a
project lead for Eclipse OMR.

[1] https://github.com/0xdaryl
[2] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/graphs/contributors
[3] https://mtngs.io/eclipse-omr/architecture/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ksZYxp0xsI
[5] https://techconf.me/talks/15413
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLUAB_RO460
[7] https://www.ibm.com/opensource/open/projects/eclipse-omr/
[8]
https://2018.splashcon.org/committee/turbo-2018-papers-organizing-committee
[9] https://www.unb.ca/research/casatlantic/workshops/aortcc-2017.html
[10]
http://cs.unb.ca/research-expo/expos/2018/submissions/20180326-13-47-mark.thom-at-unb.ca-generic_ahead-of-time_compilation_for_eclipse_omr.pdf
[11] https://slidetodoc.com/aarch-64-support-for-the-omr-language-runtime/
[12]
https://www.cs.unb.ca/research-expo/expos/2019/submissions/20190326-13-31-georgiy.krylov-at-unb.ca-aot_compilation_in_omr_relocations.pdf
[13] https://youtu.be/EHHGZLmVgTg?list=TLGGsuAk2tM3-lsxNjA1MjAyMg
[14] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3432601.3432624
[15]
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2018/projects/6128487559593984
[16]
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.omr/elections/election-kazuhiro-konno-committer-eclipse-omr
[17]
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.omr/elections/election-andrew-craik-committer-eclipse-omr
[18]
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.omr/elections/election-irwin-dsouza-committer-eclipse-omr


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

Election:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.omr/elections/election-daryl-maier-project-lead-eclipse-omr

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