Apache Calcite's Project Management Committee (PMC) has invited Bertil Chapuis to become a committer, and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Over a few months, Bertil has revitalized Calcite's geospatial support, with commits that switched our geospatial library from ESRI to the more modern JTS and proj4j libraries, and broadened our support for the industry-standard geospatial functions that are in PostGIS and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features, including adding geospatial aggregate functions. He has been easy to work with, and his contributions are of a uniformly high quality. Incidentally, Bertil is one of the initial committers of the Baremaps project, which has just entered the Apache Incubator. Bertil, welcome, thank you for your contributions, and we look forward to your further interactions with the community! If you wish, please feel free to tell us more about yourself and what you are working on. As your first commit, please add yourself to the contributors list [1] and the community page will re-generate [2]. Julian (on behalf of the Apache Calcite PMC) [1] https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/main/site/_data/contributors.yml [2] https://calcite.apache.org/community/#project-members
