Welcome Erick! On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Well, let's see. I used to work for a company that had acquired > several other products. The small group I worked in supported > ...5 different search engines. One of which had to be rebooted > periodically (every hour?) to keep from bringing down the > server. > > In the time it took me to get a response to an email asking for > support from one of those vendors I'd found Lucene, downloaded > it, indexed some of our content and was searching it. > > Then the vendor responded with "that's an invalid serial number, > we can't talk to you until you give us the right one". I was hooked > from there on. > > So we replaced another one of the search engines, also replaced > a SQL solution, and put a new product on Lucene. By the end of > the third one, I thought to myself "Gee, there's a certain > commonality among these, I wonder if I could write something that > was configuration-driven to make this even easier". Fortunately I > found Solr before trying to write one myself.... > > The folks on the Lucene user's list gently helped me along > with my understanding of Lucene, and I started answering > the questions I could. I found three things out. > 1> trying to regularly answer a question or two helped > me understand nooks and crannies better. > 2> it freed up people who really knew things to help me even more. > 3> they invited me to be a committer. This part was totally > unexpected I must say. I contributed a few patches along > the way, mostly around the edges in the jUnit area. > > Personal stuff: > > My wife and I have a daughter who's the apple of our eye, and > her husband adores her. What more could we ask of him? > > Along the way we built our house 20+ years ago. OK > I don't do drywall (too slow) or electrical (don't like fires) or > masonry (don't have the skill). But most of the rest of it worked out. > And my wife and I even stayed married. > > Graduated U of Mich three times, once in elementary ed, then a bs > and ms in computer science. Worked in the industry since then, > mostly in the publishing area (typesetting systems Z80-based), > a newspaper editorial system, a corporate search provider > and most recently for a large information provider to business, > research and educational customers. I guess I've been in the > tech fields for...er...30 years. Siiggghhhh. Do I get "grandfather" > status? > > Anyway, I'm flattered by the invitation to become a committer and > it looks like I need to actually start digging into the code... > > Thanks PMC > Erick > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted for Erick > > Erickson as a committer. > > > > Erick, its tradition that you introduce yourself with a brief bio. > > > > Congratulations! > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
