Hello all, I'm happy to announce that Chia-Ping Tsai has accepted his invitation to become an Apache Kafka committer.
Chia-Ping has been contributing to Kafka since March 2018 and has made 74 commits: https://github.com/apache/kafka/commits?author=chia7712 He's also authored several major improvements, participated in the KIP discussion and PR reviews as well. His major feature development includes: * KAFKA-9654: Epoch based ReplicaAlterLogDirsThread creation. * KAFKA-8334: Spiky offsetCommit latency due to lock contention. * KIP-331: Add default implementation to close() and configure() for serde * KIP-367: Introduce close(Duration) to Producer and AdminClients * KIP-338: Support to exclude the internal topics in kafka-topics.sh command In addition, Chia-Ping has demonstrated his great diligence fixing test failures, his impressive engineering attitude and taste in fixing tricky bugs while keeping simple designs. Please join me to congratulate Chia-Ping for all the contributions! -- Guozhang
