Oh sorry, I misspoke. Indeed, the author was Shiti Saxena. However, reviewers often make such significant contributions to the final version of a publication that one could treat them as co-authors. At least that's how I viewed my reviewers when publishing peer-reviewed papers.
Marek On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Prashant Sharma <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Marek, > > I did not co-auther that book, I was just one of the reviewers. > > Thanks > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Marek Kolodziej <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Congratulations Tom and Prashant! >> >> By the way, Prashant co-authored a very nice intro book about SBT, it was >> just published by Packt in September. >> >> Marek >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:21 AM, karthik tunga <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> > Congrats Tom and Prashant :) >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Karthik >> > On Nov 13, 2013 7:37 PM, "Matei Zaharia" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi folks, >> > > >> > > The Apache Spark PPMC is happy to welcome two new PPMC members and >> > > committers: Tom Graves and Prashant Sharma. >> > > >> > > Tom has been maintaining and expanding the YARN support in Spark over >> the >> > > past few months, including adding big features such as support for >> YARN >> > > security, and recently contributed a major patch that adds security to >> > all >> > > of Spark’s internal communication services as well ( >> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/120). It will be >> great to >> > > have him continue expanding these and other features as a committer. >> > > >> > > Prashant created and has maintained the Scala 2.10 branch of Spark >> for 6+ >> > > months now, including tackling the hairy task of porting the Spark >> > > interpreter to 2.10, and debugging all the issues raised by that with >> > > third-party libraries. He's also contributed bug fixes and new input >> > > sources to Spark Streaming. The Scala 2.10 branch will be merged into >> > > master soon. >> > > >> > > We’re very excited to have both Tom and Prashant join the project as >> > > committers. >> > > >> > > The Apache Spark PPMC >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > -- > s >
