+1 On Friday, October 19, 2012, Jonathan Coveney wrote:
> As a committer, I enjoy nothing more than committing the code of > non-committers (except perhaps a rare sunny day of San Francisco). It's > great for Pig, and it's great for open source in general. > > I want to give a couple of shout-out's in particular: > > Cheolsoo has been awesome about working to keep the build green, as well as > submitting a ton of high-quality patches on a variety of topics > > Rohini has also been working hard on this front, and has been good about > weighing in on tickets on issues (very helpfully) related to keeping the > build stable, especially with the various versions of Hadoop > > John Gordon clearly is doing the somewhat thankless work of getting Pig to > run well on windows, which I think deserves thanks > > Of course, there are a ton of people working on Pig. Take a look at > CHANGES.txt for 0.11 and you'll see a ton of names. A lot of them are new, > and that is awesome. > > Prashant Kommireddi, Eli Reisman, Russell Jurney, and of course many more > all deserve recognition for the work being done on Pig. If it was left to > the 2-3 of us core folks, the release would be a shadow of what it > currently is, and it'd be a lot less stable. > > So thanks! Keep hacking. Keep the patches coming! > Jon >
