Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-04 Thread Mark Miller
Welcome aboard Erick! Looking forward to seeing some code that has been hacked 
up on a sailboat :)

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-02 Thread Martijn v Groningen
Welcome Erick!

On 2 June 2011 06:45, Doron Cohen cdor...@gmail.com wrote:

 Welcome Erick!


 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Erick Erickson 
 erickerick...@gmail.comwrote:

 Well, let's see. I used to work for a company that had acquired
 several other products. The small group I worked in supported
 ...5 different search engines. One of which had to be rebooted
 periodically (every hour?) to keep from bringing down the
 server.

 In the time it took me to get a response to an email asking for
 support from one of those vendors I'd found Lucene, downloaded
 it, indexed some of our content and was searching it.

 Then the vendor responded with that's an invalid serial number,
 we can't talk to you until you give us the right one. I was hooked
 from there on.

 So we replaced another one of the search engines, also replaced
 a SQL solution, and put a new product on Lucene. By the end of
 the third one, I thought to myself Gee, there's a certain
 commonality among these, I wonder if I could write something that
 was configuration-driven to make this even easier. Fortunately I
 found Solr before trying to write one myself

 The folks on the Lucene user's list gently helped me along
 with my understanding of Lucene, and I started answering
 the questions I could. I found three things out.
 1 trying to regularly answer a question or two helped
 me understand nooks and crannies better.
 2 it freed up people who really knew things to help me even more.
 3 they invited me to be a committer. This part was totally
 unexpected I must say. I contributed a few patches along
 the way, mostly around the edges in the jUnit area.

 Personal stuff:

 My wife and I have a daughter who's the apple of our eye, and
 her husband adores her. What more could we ask of him?

 Along the way we built our house 20+ years ago. OK
 I don't do drywall (too slow) or electrical (don't like fires) or
 masonry (don't have the skill). But most of the rest of it worked out.
 And my wife and I even stayed married.

 Graduated U of Mich three times, once in elementary ed, then a bs
 and ms in computer science. Worked in the industry since then,
 mostly in the publishing area (typesetting systems Z80-based),
 a newspaper editorial system, a corporate search provider
 and most recently for a large information provider to business,
 research and educational  customers. I guess I've been in the
 tech fields for...er...30 years. Siiggg. Do I get grandfather
 status?

 Anyway, I'm flattered by the invitation to become a committer and
 it looks like I need to actually start digging into the code...

 Thanks PMC
 Erick

 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted for Erick
  Erickson as a committer.
 
  Erick, its tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio.
 
  Congratulations!
 
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RE: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Steven A Rowe
Welcome, Erick!

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Minh Doan
Welcome Erick!

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Steven A Rowe sar...@syr.edu wrote:

 Welcome, Erick!

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  Erick, its tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio.
 
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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Erik Hatcher
Yay!   Welcome, Erick.


On Jun 1, 2011, at 16:07 , Robert Muir wrote:

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Simon Willnauer
Welcome!

simon
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Erik Hatcher erik.hatc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yay!   Welcome, Erick.


 On Jun 1, 2011, at 16:07 , Robert Muir wrote:

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, let's see. I used to work for a company that had acquired
several other products. The small group I worked in supported
...5 different search engines. One of which had to be rebooted
periodically (every hour?) to keep from bringing down the
server.

In the time it took me to get a response to an email asking for
support from one of those vendors I'd found Lucene, downloaded
it, indexed some of our content and was searching it.

Then the vendor responded with that's an invalid serial number,
we can't talk to you until you give us the right one. I was hooked
from there on.

So we replaced another one of the search engines, also replaced
a SQL solution, and put a new product on Lucene. By the end of
the third one, I thought to myself Gee, there's a certain
commonality among these, I wonder if I could write something that
was configuration-driven to make this even easier. Fortunately I
found Solr before trying to write one myself

The folks on the Lucene user's list gently helped me along
with my understanding of Lucene, and I started answering
the questions I could. I found three things out.
1 trying to regularly answer a question or two helped
 me understand nooks and crannies better.
2 it freed up people who really knew things to help me even more.
3 they invited me to be a committer. This part was totally
 unexpected I must say. I contributed a few patches along
 the way, mostly around the edges in the jUnit area.

Personal stuff:

My wife and I have a daughter who's the apple of our eye, and
her husband adores her. What more could we ask of him?

Along the way we built our house 20+ years ago. OK
I don't do drywall (too slow) or electrical (don't like fires) or
masonry (don't have the skill). But most of the rest of it worked out.
And my wife and I even stayed married.

Graduated U of Mich three times, once in elementary ed, then a bs
and ms in computer science. Worked in the industry since then,
mostly in the publishing area (typesetting systems Z80-based),
a newspaper editorial system, a corporate search provider
and most recently for a large information provider to business,
research and educational  customers. I guess I've been in the
tech fields for...er...30 years. Siiggg. Do I get grandfather
status?

Anyway, I'm flattered by the invitation to become a committer and
it looks like I need to actually start digging into the code...

Thanks PMC
Erick

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted for Erick
 Erickson as a committer.

 Erick, its tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio.

 Congratulations!

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Michael McCandless
Welcome Erick!

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote:
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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Dawid Weiss
Welcome, Erick!

Dawid

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Michael McCandless 
luc...@mikemccandless.com wrote:

 Welcome Erick!

 Mike McCandless

 http://blog.mikemccandless.com

 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted for Erick
  Erickson as a committer.
 
  Erick, its tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio.
 
  Congratulations!
 
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RE: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Uwe Schindler
Welcome Erick,

It was nice to meet you several times in real life, too!

Uwe

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Andi Vajda


And welcome Erick !

Andi..

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Robert Muir wrote:


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Erickson as a committer.

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Koji Sekiguchi

Welcome, Erick!

(11/06/02 5:07), Robert Muir wrote:

I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted for Erick
Erickson as a committer.

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Shai Erera
Welcome Erick !

Shai

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Koji Sekiguchi k...@r.email.ne.jp wrote:

 Welcome, Erick!


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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread David Smiley (@MITRE.org)
Congrats Erick! I've noticed you on the mailing list for a long time and
you've offered many people good advise.

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Re: Welcome Erick Erickson as Lucene/Solr committer

2011-06-01 Thread Doron Cohen
Welcome Erick!

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.comwrote:

 Well, let's see. I used to work for a company that had acquired
 several other products. The small group I worked in supported
 ...5 different search engines. One of which had to be rebooted
 periodically (every hour?) to keep from bringing down the
 server.

 In the time it took me to get a response to an email asking for
 support from one of those vendors I'd found Lucene, downloaded
 it, indexed some of our content and was searching it.

 Then the vendor responded with that's an invalid serial number,
 we can't talk to you until you give us the right one. I was hooked
 from there on.

 So we replaced another one of the search engines, also replaced
 a SQL solution, and put a new product on Lucene. By the end of
 the third one, I thought to myself Gee, there's a certain
 commonality among these, I wonder if I could write something that
 was configuration-driven to make this even easier. Fortunately I
 found Solr before trying to write one myself

 The folks on the Lucene user's list gently helped me along
 with my understanding of Lucene, and I started answering
 the questions I could. I found three things out.
 1 trying to regularly answer a question or two helped
 me understand nooks and crannies better.
 2 it freed up people who really knew things to help me even more.
 3 they invited me to be a committer. This part was totally
 unexpected I must say. I contributed a few patches along
 the way, mostly around the edges in the jUnit area.

 Personal stuff:

 My wife and I have a daughter who's the apple of our eye, and
 her husband adores her. What more could we ask of him?

 Along the way we built our house 20+ years ago. OK
 I don't do drywall (too slow) or electrical (don't like fires) or
 masonry (don't have the skill). But most of the rest of it worked out.
 And my wife and I even stayed married.

 Graduated U of Mich three times, once in elementary ed, then a bs
 and ms in computer science. Worked in the industry since then,
 mostly in the publishing area (typesetting systems Z80-based),
 a newspaper editorial system, a corporate search provider
 and most recently for a large information provider to business,
 research and educational  customers. I guess I've been in the
 tech fields for...er...30 years. Siiggg. Do I get grandfather
 status?

 Anyway, I'm flattered by the invitation to become a committer and
 it looks like I need to actually start digging into the code...

 Thanks PMC
 Erick

 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted for Erick
  Erickson as a committer.
 
  Erick, its tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio.
 
  Congratulations!
 
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