The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Forrest has asked Gavin McDonald to become a committer and member of the PMC, and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Gavin has been around our community for some time. He has been gradually immersing himself in our community, striving to understand important parts of Forrest, giving excellent user perspective feedback and thorough testing. He is becoming increasingly involved with developer tasks, in particular he has started to help manage JIRA, and admin task that is overlooked by most committers. Furthermore, he is happy to become involved in "sticky" threads, trying to find a sensible compromise to any given situation. Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better productivity. Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management and to guide the direction of the project. A very warm welcome to Gavin. salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
