The email thread suggests his PRs were reviewed promptly and rejected. Nothing was ignored.
https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/...
https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/...
(So his ping "any progress?" apparently fell on the wrong ears, if he wasn't told he had to submit a new application with something corrected...)