Josh Elser and Jing Chen (Jerry) have both been added to the HBase PMC. These lads have been stellar helping the project along; Jerry for a good few years now and Josh, though less time served, has made up for the lack with style. It makes sense that they be made PMCers!
Let me take this opportunity while I have your attention to also welcome Eshcar Hillel as a Committer on Apache HBase. We are very glad to have her on-board. She's a brainbox who has been working on the inmemory compaction project among other things and is without fear when it comes to taking a deep dive into crud! Welcome aboard Josh, Jing Chen He, and Eshcar! St.Ack
