The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Giraphhas asked Pavan
Kumar to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he
hasaccepted. Here are some of Pavan's contributions:
GIRAPH-858: tests fail for hadoop_facebook because of dependency issues
(pavanka via aching)
GIRAPH-854: fix for test fail due to GIRAPH-840 (pavanka via majakabiljo)
GIRAPH-840: Upgrade to netty 4 (pavanka via majakabiljo)
GIRAPH-843: remove rexter from hadoop_facebook profile (pavanka via aching)
GIRAPH-838: setup time & total time counter also include time spent
waiting for machines (pavanka via majakabiljo)
GIRAPH-839: NettyWorkerAggregatorRequestProcessor tries to reuse request
objects (pavanka via majakabiljo)
GIRAPH-830: directMemory used in netty message (pavanka via aching)
GIRAPH-823: upgrade hiveio to version 0.21 from olderversion 0.20
(pavanka via majakabiljo)
GIRAPH-821: proper handling of NegativeArraySizeException for all
ByteArray backed messagestores (pavanka via majakabiljo)
GIRAPH-820: add a configuration option to skip creating source vertices
present only in edge input (pavanka via majakabiljo)
Pavan has been actively writing and reviewing code. His Netty4 upgrade
brought a HUGE performance improvement to Giraph trunk (everyone should
try it out!). We are very excited to have Pavan take a larger role in
the Giraph community!
Thanks Pavan,
Avery
