Welcome Alex!
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From: dev@lucene.apache.org
To: dev@lucene.apache.org
At: 08/07/16 06:15:24
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
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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
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