Hi Alexandre, I've added your account to Jira and confluence. You should be all set now!
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you everybody. I can confirm that I can add myself the whoweare > page. I am looking forward to gaining similar privileges to the JIRA > and the Reference Guide. > > I can say that I am extremely excited to be given the committer > privileges. I have dabbled with Solr from a version as early as 1.x > and have been focusing on it as of several years ago. I have been in > the IT field for more than 20 years doing many different things and > felt Solr would be a perfect project through which to contribute back > to the community with my coding, tech support, and (ESL...) technical > writing skills. With an opportunity several years ago to publish a > book about Solr, my Solr Start website, and now this, I feel I have > reached that stage when I am starting to pay forward to all those > people who helped me adopt and enjoy the IT career over the years. > Including many of them in this very community, who have welcomed me at > the conferences and in private emails, shared their own Solr stories > and advice and encouraged my contributions. > > I feel my strongest skills are of being a generalist and of dealing > with less-technical users. A good part of that was learned through a - > rather painful - role as a senior relationship engineer at BEA, where > I supported and troubleshooted multiple releases of multi-million-line > Java codebases of BEA products (Weblogic primarily). These days, I > enjoy working with people new to Solr and seeing their imagination > catch when they finally understand the project's power and potential > benefits within their application stacks. > > So, I am planning to continue contributing to Solr's onboarding > experience, better tooling integration, easier learning curve, and > other popularization activities. To that effect, if anybody needs any > help with those aspects of their Solr subsystem, feel free to reach > out to me directly. > > Regards, > Alex > > ---- > Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: > http://www.solr-start.com/ > > > On 7 August 2016 at 08:49, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce that Alexandre Rafalovitch has accepted the > Lucene PMC's invitation to become a committer. > > > > Alexandre, it's tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio. > > > > Your handle "arafalov" is already added to the “lucene" LDAP group, so > you now have commit privileges. Please test this by adding yourself to the > committers section of the Who We Are page on the website: < > http://lucene.apache.org/whoweare.html> (instructions here < > https://lucene.apache.org/site-instructions.html>). > > > > The ASF dev page also has lots of useful links: < > http://www.apache.org/dev/>. > > > > Congratulations and welcome! > > > > -- > > Jan Høydahl > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
