Hi everyone, We are thrilled to announce that Leonard Xu has joined the Flink PMC!
Leonard has been an active member of the Apache Flink community for many years and became a committer in Nov 2021. He has been involved in various areas of the project, from code contributions to community building. His contributions are mainly focused on Flink SQL and connectors, especially leading the flink-cdc-connectors project to receive 3.8+K GitHub stars. He authored 150+ PRs, and reviewed 250+ PRs, and drove several FLIPs (e.g., FLIP-132, FLIP-162). He has participated in plenty of discussions in the dev mailing list, answering questions about 500+ threads in the user/user-zh mailing list. Besides that, he is community minded, such as being the release manager of 1.17, verifying releases, managing release syncs, etc. Congratulations and welcome Leonard! Best, Jark (on behalf of the Flink PMC)
