Congratulations, Michael! On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:23 AM 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 no longer active), went to a few Lucene/Solr Revolutions (spoke at 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 > >