Congratulations, Lorenz! Thank you for all the work you are putting in to help people.
--- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > On Nov 2, 2016, at 6:19 AM, Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
