Congratulations and welcome, Mars!
> On Jul 28, 2017, at 1:04 PM, Mars Hall <m...@heroku.com> wrote: > > 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 >
