+1, based on Rick's technical work and knowledge. He also brings right kind of humor and flair to the group!
Satheesh David W. Van Couvering wrote: > This vote is for establishing Rick Hillegas as a committer for Derby. > Please vote +1 if you approve of Rick as a committer. > > I am nominating Rick because he has been consistently contributing to > the Derby project in the following ways: > > - He has contributed some very useful patches, working hard to get > them accepted by the community. His work with the boolean datatype > included submitting a vote to get its addition approved and the > patient and committed work of getting the Open Group to accept BOOLEAN > and some other new types into the DRDA specification. > > My inspections of his code have shown clean, well-structured, > well-documented code. > o DERBY-171 - Correlation ID in UPDATE/DELETE statements > o DERBY-289 - Wrong result from select when aliasing to same name... > o DERBY-516 - Backward/forward compatibility testing > o DERBY-499 - Add support for BOOLEAN datatype > > - He has logged numerous improvements and bugs for Derby > http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12310511 > > See also http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/LuceneIntegration > > - He has reviewed patches for others, particularly in the area of JDBC > 4 support. > > - He has been active on the user list, spending the time to answer > user questions, particularly around the area of the SQL language, > where his background and expertise have been quite valuable. > > - He has contributed to the community in other important ways, > including submitted a vote for (and getting approval) to accept JUnit > into the testing environment and aligning DRDA product ids for > Cloudscape and Derby. He has also paticipated in some important > debates and discussions around Derby product directions and the > overall community. > > - His overall personality, determination, strong Derby skillset (from > his Cloudscape days), and communications skills are a very good fit > for the team. > > Thanks, > > David
