Congratulations Pat!
> Subject: Re: Welcome Pat Ferrel as new committer on Mahout
> From: andrew.mussel...@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 06:44:43 -0700
> CC: user@mahout.apache.org
> To: d...@mahout.apache.org
>
> Great news, welcome Pat!
>
> > On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Sebastian Schelter <s...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is to announce that the Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache
> > Mahout has asked Pat Ferrel to become committer and we are pleased to
> > announce that he has accepted.
> >
> > Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since in
> > addition to posting patches on JIRA it also gives write access to the code
> > repository. That also means that now we have yet another person who can
> > commit patches submitted by others to our repo *wink*
> >
> > Pat, we look forward to working with you in the future. Welcome! It would
> > be great if you could introduce yourself with a few words.
> >
> > -s
