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Call for Lead Maintainers: GraalVM CE 25 Backports Repository

Open alina-yur opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

GraalVM 25 Community Edition is scheduled to receive updates until January 2026. As with previous releases 17 and 21, there's a community interest in maintaining an open-source backports repository, that can serve as central source for all vendors producing open-source builds of GraalVM 25.

To support this goal, we will create graalvm-community-jdk25u for community-driven backports and version-specific fixes.

We are inviting GraalVM community members to step up as maintainers of this repository. We expect maintainers to have prior experience maintaining or contributing to large open-source projects.

Lead Maintainers will:

  • oversee community backports and version-specific bug fixes
  • coordinate contributions and reviews
  • invite additional community maintainers as needed

As a reference, previously @zakkak maintained graalvm-community-jdk21u.

To express your interest, please send an email to [email protected] by December 20, 2025. We'll review requests together with the GraalVM Advisory Board and provide updates in this ticket.

alina-yur avatar Dec 03 '25 11:12 alina-yur