Hi all - On behalf of the Apache Impala (incubating) PMC, I'm very pleased to announce that we've voted to invite Jim Apple as a committer to the project, and he's accepted.
This is a big deal for two reasons. First, it's just great to have Jim onboard - he's been driving the entire process to move Impala away from Cloudera-specific development to an ASF-supported model, while at the same time spending a great deal of time with members of our nascent community on code reviews and so on. Second, Jim's the first committer we've added since we entered the Incubator! It's a good sign of project health, and shows that we're getting our feet under us a little bit as we're able to execute these Apache processes successfully. Congratulations Jim, and welcome onboard - Henry (and the PMC)
