The PMC for Apache Kafka has invited Xi Hu as a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted!
Xi Hu has been actively contributing to Kafka since 2016, and is well recognized especially for his non-code contributions: he maintains a tech blog post evangelizing Kafka in the Chinese speaking community ( https://www.cnblogs.com/huxi2b/), and is one of the most active answering member in Zhihu (Chinese Reddit / StackOverflow) Kafka topic. He has presented in Kafka meetup events in the past and authored a book deep-diving on Kafka architecture design and operations as well ( https://www.amazon.cn/dp/B07JH9G2FL). Code wise, he has contributed 75 patches so far. Thanks for all the contributions Xi. Congratulations! -- Guozhang, on behalf of the Apache Kafka PMC
