On behalf of the Apache HBase PMC I am pleased to announce that Dima Spivak has accepted our invitation to become a committer and PMC member on the Apache HBase project. Dima has been an active contributor for some time, particularly in development and contribution of release tooling that all of our RMs now use, such as the API compatibility checker. Dima has also been active in testing and voting on release candidates. Release voting is important to project health and momentum and demonstrates interest and capability above and beyond just committing. We wish to recognize this and make those release votes binding. Please join me in thanking Dima for his contributions to date and anticipation of many more contributions.
Welcome to the HBase project, Dima! -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
