Congrats Lorenz! Welcome aboard!
Cheers Bruno >________________________________ > From: Rob Vesse <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2016 11:20 PM >Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Lorenz Buehmann elected as Committer > > >All > > > >The Apache Jena PMC have inivited Lorenz Buehmann to become a committer and we >are pleased to announce that he has accepted > > > >We have recognised Lorenz for sterling work he does in answering user >questions and participating in discussions on the mailing lists. He is always >courteous and polite in his responses even when dealing with questions that >may not warrant that politeness. Answering questions and sharing knowledge are >an important part of building a healthy community and it can often be a >time-consuming task so the more people who are willing to help out the easier >it is to share that load. > > > >Being a committer also enables easier contribution to the project since there >is no need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better >productivity. Lorenz works regularly with Jena in his day job and hopes in >time to be able to contribute some of that work that is generally applicable >back to the community. > > > >Committer is also an intermediate step to becoming of the project management >committee who are tasked with managing the project on the half of the Apache >software foundation. If you would like to learn more please see >http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles > > > >Please join us in welcoming Lorenz as a committer. > > > >Regards, > > > >Rob Vesse > > >
