Dear community,
Alfred Nathaniel has been around for more than a year at least, and has contributed several patches along the way (grep -i nathaniel status.xml will tell you more), all of good quality.
When applying his recent HtmlUnit-based tests patch (http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34294), I've been impressed with the quality of his design and code, and the excellent integration of this new testing framework in the existing code base.
According to his presentation at the GT2004, the company for which Alfred works is using Cocoon as a strategic tool to build their and their customer's websites, and IIUC he played a big part in making this decision. This is a very good sign regarding the kind of long-term involvement that we look for in committers.
So, I'm pleased to propose Alfred, should he accept the nomination, as a committer. Of course, my secret hope is that he will contribute many additional automated tests, but the committment is to the project, not to a particular task!
Please cast your votes: here's my +1
+1
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