Mauro is an existing Apache Committer on the Excalibur project (http://excalibur.apache.org/team-list.html) as well as the mojo project at Codehaus. He has recently been working on the shade plugin currently up for vote to be moved to Apache. As he has demonstrated ability and we can use the help maintaining shade and Maven in general, I'd like to call a vote to add Mauro as a Maven Committer.
Vote will be open for 72 hrs. Adopted Project Conventions for new Committer votes: "The vote duration should be specified in the mail, but must be a minimum of 72 hours (it may be made longer if there is a weekend or holiday in the middle). Votes on committers should be accepted from all committers on the project. There is no minimum number of votes needed for a vote to pass. The vote is decided by the majority (simply add all the +1's and -1's). Candidates can not be vetoed. Votes can be changed any time while the vote is still open and will supercede the previous vote by an individual. The vote should then be tallied, and if it has passed, the process for adding a new committer is followed." +1
