The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache HAWQ (incubating) has invited *Lav Jain* to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted. Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better productivity. Please join us in congratulating him and we are looking forward to collaborating with him in the open source community. His contribution includes (but not limited to):
His contribution includes (but not limited to): - *12 commits* with some major components in hawq involved, including contributions to *PXF* and* Ranger Plugin Service* - Numerous other contributions including documentation, test, build, command line tools, code refactor, etc - *300+ commits* to HAWQ and PXF *CI and testing* HAWQ-1584. Propogate bridge endIteration exception during write HAWQ-1580. Set PXF port number to 5888 for GPDB HAWQ-1545. Fix pxf-private.classpath file for Cloudera tarball distro HAWQ-1533. Fix compiler warnings when building PXF code HAWQ-1523. Provide ability to bundle PXF artifacts into a single tarbal HAWQ-1492. Enable packaging for PXF JDBC plugin. HAWQ-1461. Improve partition parameters validation for PXF-JDBC plugin. HAWQ-1454. Exclude certain jars from Ranger Plugin Service packaging HAWQ-1415. Set the default_value of JAVA_HOME for running RPS HAWQ-1420. Enable build of Ranger plugin open source RPM HAWQ-1415. Set the default_value of JAVA_HOME for running RPS **JIRA*:* *11 JIRAs* were created or assigned to Lav 10 JIRAs are closed and 1 JIRA is still open https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1492?jql= project%20%3D%20HAWQ%20AND%20(assignee%20in%20(lavjain)% 20OR%20reporter%20in%20(lavjain)) *Related Contributions* Lav has also been a very active contributor to the *HAWQ Ambari project* *40 JIRAs* were created or assigned to Lav https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-21377?jql= project%20%3D%20AMBARI%20AND%20(assignee%20in%20(lavjain)% 20OR%20reporter%20in%20(lavjain)) -- Shivram Mani
