On 11/11/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that Bertrand Delacretaz recently accepted an invitation to join the Solr project as a committer!...
Thanks very much to the Solr team for the invitation! Do you guys usually do the "new committer introduction" thing here? If it's not a tradition yet, we might as well start ;-) So here's my introduction I'm an independent software developer and architect based in Lausanne, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland (see www.codeconsult.ch). My main tools are Java, Cocoon, XSLT, Flash and Linux, and I usually work on web-related or multimedia projects. I also do some teaching at a local engineering school, a yearly XML (and XSLT and Cocoon) class and a cool "web lab" class where students get to experiment with all sorts of software tools. In the Apache world, I'm a committer on the Cocoon and FOP projects, an ASF member and a mentor for the incubation of the Wicket project. I'm not a big specialist in information retrieval, so you'll probably have to endure some naive questions when it comes to sophisticated indexing and retrieval concepts. OTOH I've been using and integrating search systems for quite a while - my first such project with Java dates back from 1997, the search engine was Microsoft Index Server and we used it to do similar things that we do with Solr today, combining structured information fields with full text in queries. I'm curently helping a customer's team integrate Solr in their website, this is supposed to go online at the beginning of December and will be fairly visible in this (small) corner of my (small) country, so you'll hear about it! I'm very pleased to join this team, and hope to contribute useful additions to Solr! -Bertrand
