Welcome Michael! > On May 13, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am pretty sure my first interaction with the Apache Solr/Lucene community >> was back in 2012, > > Yeah... I really don't know how it happened you haven't been > invited earlier. Everyone just kind of assumed you > have committer rights already! :) > > > D. > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:23 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Dawid, and thank you to everyone who voted to grant me access >> to this awesome project! >> >> I spent many years building full text search web applications serving >> large texts (especially dictionaries, encyclopedias, and academic >> journals). I cut my teeth with AltaVista back in 1998, and tried many >> other search engines before finally coming around to Solr/Lucene. >> >> I am pretty sure my first interaction with the Apache Solr/Lucene >> community was back in 2012, when I was looking to solve a performance >> problem we encountered highlighting gigantic documents. Since then >> I've worked on many projects involving Solr and Lucene, and >> ElasticSearch, and made various contributions, implemented some of my >> own extensions, made a separate XML query engine based on Solr (Lux - >> no longer active), went to a few Lucene/Solr Revolutions (spoke at >> one), and always in the back of my mind was the idea of contributing >> more actively and becoming a full participant in this thriving open >> source project. Now I'm really excited that has come to pass, and look >> forward to digging in even deeper, and helping to keep this thing >> going. >> >> -Mike >> >> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:12 PM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Please join me in welcoming Michael Sokolov as Lucene/ Solr committer! >>> >>> Many of you probably know Mike as he's been around for quite a while >>> -- answering questions, reviewing patches, providing insight and >>> actively working on new code. >>> >>> Congratulations and welcome! It is a tradition to introduce yourself >>> with a brief bio, Mike. >>> >>> Dawid > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >
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