Welcome Erick! On 2 June 2011 06:45, Doron Cohen <cdor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > -- Met vriendelijke groet, Martijn van Groningen
