Vote: yes
To add to Mike's comments, this may be the first time where "significant contributions" is interpreted to include the huge effort required to coordinate, verify, and shepherd in a complex set patches and new algorithms. Those on core-libs-dev will be very familiar with the significant and wonderfully visible effort that Brian has put in over the last few months to work through the backlog of patches from the numerics community and bring the patches into the jdk8 project.
