Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Koji Sekiguchi
Welcome, Alan! koji -- http://soleami.com/blog/starting-lab-work.html (12/10/17 14:36), Robert Muir wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky stuff: positions iterators, span queries,

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Male
Welcome Alan! On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky stuff: positions iterators, span queries, highlighters, codecs, and

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Christian Moen
Congratulations, Alan! Welcome! And thanks for the cool work! Best wishes, Christian http://www.atilika.com (new) On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Stefan Matheis
Welcome Alan :) On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Christian Moen wrote: Congratulations, Alan! Welcome! And thanks for the cool work! Best wishes, Christian http://www.atilika.com (new) On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com (mailto:rcm...@gmail.com)

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Simon Willnauer
welcome alan! hope you get back into position interators soon :) simon On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Stefan Matheis matheis.ste...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome Alan :) On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Christian Moen wrote: Congratulations, Alan! Welcome! And thanks for the cool

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Dawid Weiss
Welcome to the team, Alan. Dawid On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky stuff: positions iterators, span queries,

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Alan Woodward
Thanks Robert. I'm a developer based in Cambridge, UK, and have been working on search engines for 10 years or so. Up until a couple of years ago I was mainly using closed-source implementations, and discovering lucene/solr was a breath of fresh air (you can see the code! you can fix bugs

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Martijn v Groningen
Welcome Alan! On 17 October 2012 10:04, Alan Woodward alan.woodw...@romseysoftware.co.uk wrote: Thanks Robert. I'm a developer based in Cambridge, UK, and have been working on search engines for 10 years or so. Up until a couple of years ago I was mainly using closed-source

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Adrien Grand
Welcome, Alan!

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Michael McCandless
Welcome aboard Alan! Happy Coding, Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Erick Erickson
Welcome aboard Alan! FWIW, Alan and I used to work for the same company, although on opposite sides of the Atlantic although we did meet a few times. We had a memorable lesson in how well closed-source code was supported... especially when the company in question is purchased. Erick On Wed, Oct

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Steven A Rowe
Welcome Alan! Alan Woodward alan.woodw...@romseysoftware.co.uk wrote: Thanks Robert. I'm a developer based in Cambridge, UK, and have been working on search engines for 10 years or so. Up until a couple of years ago I was mainly using closed-source implementations, and discovering

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread David Smiley (@MITRE.org)
Welcome Alan! You've been improving challenging parts of Lucene. ~ David - Author: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Welcome-Alan-Woodward-as-Lucene-Solr-committer-tp4014132p4014222

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Miller
Welcome Alan! On Oct 17, 2012, at 1:36 AM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky stuff: positions iterators, span queries, highlighters, codecs, and so

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Yonik Seeley
Congrats and welcome, Alan! -Yonik http://lucidworks.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky stuff: positions

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Congratulations and welcome, Alan. Otis -- Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted

Re: Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-17 Thread Jan Høydahl
Welcome, Alan! -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com 17. okt. 2012 kl. 07:36 skrev Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com: I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been

Welcome Alan Woodward as Lucene/Solr committer

2012-10-16 Thread Robert Muir
I'm pleased to announce that the Lucene PMC has voted Alan as a Lucene/Solr committer. Alan has been contributing patches on various tricky stuff: positions iterators, span queries, highlighters, codecs, and so on. Alan: its tradition that you introduce yourself with your background. I think