Welcome Antoni! Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Antoni Mylka <antoni.my...@gmail.com> wrote: > W dniu 2011-12-12 17:58, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) pisze: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> Please welcome Antoni Mylka to the ranks of the Tika PMC and as a Tika >> committer. >> He's just been VOTEd in and we're really happy to have him around. >> >> Antoni, please feel free to say a bit about yourself. Thanks and welcome >> aboard! > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm an independent software developer based in Kraków, Poland. I've been > working for more than 5 years now for Aduna and DFKI as a maintainer of > Aperture Framework, a project which started in 2005 whose goals turned out > to overlap with Tika's (which started sometime in 2007 afair). Hence, I've > been following Tika development almost since the beginning. > > In recent months, Tika has achieved a level of quality (1.0!!!) which made > me reconsider the feasibility of maintaining our own, similar components in > Aperture. That's why I got involved more, started posting issues, and now I > got invited to become a committer. Thanks very much for the invitation. I'll > do my best to do more good than harm :). > > At the moment I'm mostly interested in media type detection with a clear > short-term goal to fix all the regressions i.e. things which the old > Aperture MagicMimeTypeIdentifier could detect, but the new > TikaMimeTypeIdentifier (Aperture interface - tika implementation) can't. > > In a longer term I'll be slowly migrating the apps I work on to use Tika > parsers. They can't just be "switched" to Tika. This will be a slow, gradual > process with careful regression testing. I think it's inevitable though, how > many POI-based Word parsers does the world need? > > Antoni Myłka > antoni.my...@gmail.com
