Hi Kudu community, I'm pleased to announce that the Kudu PMC has voted to add Andrew Wong, Grant Henke, and Hao Hao as Kudu committers and PMC members. This announcement is a bit delayed, but I figured it's better late than never!
Andrew has contributed to Kudu in a bunch of areas. Most notably, he authored a bunch of optimizations for predicate evaluation on the read path, and recently has led the effort to introduce better tolerance of disk failures within the tablet server. In addition to code, Andrew has been a big help with questions on the user mailing list, Slack, and elsewhere. Grant's contributions have spanned several areas. Notably, he made a bunch of improvements to our Java and Scala builds -- an area where others might be shy. He also implemented checksum verification for data blocks and has begun working on a design for DECIMAL, one of the most highly-requested features. Hao has also been contributing to Kudu for quite some time. Her notable contributions include improved fault tolerance for the Java client, fixes and optimizations on the Spark integration, and some important refactorings and performance optimizations in the block layer. Hao has also represented the community by giving talks about Kudu at a conference in China. Please join me in congratulating the new committers and PMC members! -Todd
