Hi all, The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache PredictionIO (incubating) has asked Mars Hall to become a PMC member and committer, and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Mars has been working on PredictionIO since 0.10 and has suggested and made changes to the core so that it has become more configurable and easier to deploy on Heroku. He added authentication support to the REST-based Elasticsearch client. He has also found and fixed core bugs. Mars is the primary driver in delivering a good developer experience through Heroku buildpacks for PredictionIO ( https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-buildpack), which allows engine templates to be submitted to Heroku and deployed automatically. He also made a couple engine templates that are preset to do so ( https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-engine-classification, https://github.com/heroku/predictionio-engine-ur). Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better productivity. Being a PMC member enables assistance with the management and to guide the direction of the project. Please join us in welcoming Mars. Regards, Donald
