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- Michael On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of signing up as mentor on the Incubator wiki and > thought I'd better introduce myself since I don't expect anybody around > here to know me. > > Like many people I came to the ASF to scratch a few itches I encountered > with an existing project I used at work. In my case it was JServ in > around 1998 but I mainly remained a pure user with the occasional bug > report back then. But I gradually became more involved over time. In > 2000 I was voted in as a committer to Ant and later the year as a member > of the ASF. > > Today I still am an active committer to Ant, the PMC chairman of Gump > and involved in a few smaller parts of Commons and the remainings of > Jakarta. A few years ago I mentored Apache Ivy through incubation so I > already wear my Incubator scars. > > During work hours the .NET platform has become my main development > target since 2005. Even though all the ASF projects I'm involved in are > Java projects I'm very familiar with C# and the platform in general. > > Early last year I coded up a prototype for a customer project (that > never took off) using Lucene.NET and recall how "wrong" it felt so I > fully understand and appreciate the need for an idiomatic API. > > It's my goal to keep out of any technical decisions, that's really up to > the committers to decide. I may find time to participate in the > discussions and even provide a patch or two but won't promise anything. > > I hope I can contribute a small part to a successful reboot of the > project. Let's enjoy the ride. > > Stefan > > -- > http://stefan.samaflost.de/ >
