Thank you all! It's an honor to join the project as a committer. I'm originally from a small town in southern Romania <https://maps.app.goo.gl/fz3Ju683kF91MmbT7>, so I'm really looking forward to seeing #12172 <https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/12172> resolved, since both the characters in question (ș, ț) are supposed to show up in my name.
In university <https://maps.app.goo.gl/D93VnxFEeRrZFHJs9>, I had professors who contributed to open software <https://github.com/unikraft> and I was lucky enough to be given a taste of the open source world. I had become a teaching assistant for a few of the courses (Data Structures, Control Theory), and it had crossed my mind to stay at the university. Then I got an offer to come work at Amazon, in Ireland <https://maps.app.goo.gl/25nSmtv87hZ2mcKv5>. They gave me a list of teams I could join that only had the names of the teams - I thought Search Engine Tech sounded the coolest. I was right! That's how I first learned about Lucene and started working with/on it. It's a privilege, Lucene is an amazing piece of software and I'm proud to be contributing. Outside programming, I like history and philosophy. I've been a voracious reader basically since I learned how to read. Recently, I've been going down a spiral of increasingly obscure books, but nothing has topped Dostoevsky's classic, The Brothers Karamazov <https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4934>. Knowing books also happens to be useful for thinking up faceting examples <https://communityovercode.org/past-sessions/community-over-code-na-2023/#SH004>, so that's a plus. When I was in middle-school, I half-willingly went through 4 years of classical guitar training and was left with a life-long desire to be a good musician despite my inconsistent practice habits. Practice will have to wait until I finish up the next PR - looking forward to many more in the future! Cheers, Stefan On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 15:56, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > Hi Team, > > I'm pleased to announce that Stefan Vodita has accepted the Lucene PMC's > invitation to become a committer! > > Stefan, the tradition is that new committers introduce themselves with a > brief bio. > > Congratulations, welcome, and thank you for all your improvements to > Lucene and our community, > > Mike McCandless > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com >
