team/tidb: A Vote for nomination of expxiaoli as the TiDB reviewer

[bb7133]

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@expxiaoli has contributed to pingcap/tidb in several important areas, especially DDL stability, add-index resource safety, privilege model correctness, and upgrade-path robustness.

The following lists the details of @expxiaoli's TiDB contributions as of August 7, 2026:

• 40+ authored pull requests
• 35+ reviewed pull requests
• Authored issues

Representative work includes:

• Add-index resource safety: auto pause add-index on TiKV disk full #69350, #69181, and TiKV space precheck for DXF add-index #68490
• Privilege model correctness: canonicalize db/table names for table-scope GRANT and REVOKE #67487 with release backports #68456, #68547, and hardening parseBinaryParams against malformed input #68917
• DDL correctness and safety: partition-column type change whitelist #67635, prohibiting indexed generated column type changes #67814, using real start ts for recover table snapshot #68229, and fixing ALTER TABLE NOCACHE metadata cleanup #67109
• Upgrade-path robustness: initializing / tolerating the masking policy table during upgrade #69763, #69531

He has also reviewed TiDB changes in closely related areas, including DDL / add-index improvements, masking policy privileges, and server protocol limits, such as #69706, #69425, #69107, and #70231.

I (@bb7133) hereby nominate @expxiaoli as TiDB Reviewer and call for a vote.

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Thanks, voters! I'll update the result and get this merged.

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Timeline:

• 2026-08-11 03:28:04.189678384 +0000 UTC m=+3103470.225773440: ☑️ agreed by disksing.
• 2026-08-13 06:14:01.418937991 +0000 UTC m=+3286227.455033047: ✖️🔁 reset by bb7133.

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