Thank you Donald, I'm honored & excited to officially join the project!
*Mars ( <> .. <> ) > On Jul 28, 2017, at 12:01, Donald Szeto <don...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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
