Thanks to all of you for your kind words and for this opportunity! TomEE has a very welcoming community.
My journey started in 2015 (with TomEE 1.7.x), when my colleague, Martin W., urged me (hehe, sorry for the wording :-P) to join the [email protected] list to monitor potential discussions, which would influence our (research) software. So, there I was - a silent listener reading the various discussions going on at this time. Then, in December 2018, there was "TomEE for the Holidays" (with this cool images on Twitter [1]) and we had an issue (related to German locales / date formatting) influencing our software: after some debugging and feedback by Romain via Jira, my first commit to TomEE was born. Time passed again and in 2019, the next image appeared on Twitter [2]. In 2020, I was experimenting with JCA connectors to build some sort of pseudo transactional file io (digged through the mailing lists to find some information about it - might be worth to write it down in the future :-) ) and also learned a lot related to CORBA, Byte-Code generation at build time and SPI (and also some sort of history about it). Through all this years: Whenever I had a question or some thoughts, I received an answer or a piece of information to start digging enabling me to ask a follow up question and so on ... tl;dr: I experienced a lot of fun & learned a lot about TomEE internals and I am still learning a lot each day. Thus, I feel honored to be part of such a supportive community (even before becomming a committer) :-) I hope, that I can continue this journey with all of you in the next years! Gruss Richard [1] https://twitter.com/tomitribe/status/1073645255407345666 [2] https://twitter.com/tomitribe/status/1207322298870632449 Am Dienstag, den 12.01.2021, 22:34 +0100 schrieb Jean-Louis Monteiro: > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache TomEE has > invited Richard to become a committer and we are pleased to announce > that > he has accepted. > > Richard, a while back (yes I know) when I started contributing and I > eventually got invited to become a committer, David sent a wonderful > message[1] based on the well known proverb "It takes a village ... > (to > raise a child)". I can't unfortunately compete with David's phrasing > and > wonderful words, but believe me, I wish I could for you. But I'll try > to > say it with my simple but honest frenchglish words. > > I'm very proud to be writing this announcement on behalf of the > Apache > TomEE PMC. You have been continuously contributing to the project, > with > code, documentation, examples and most important, helping out users > and > other potential committers. > > You have the Apache way and I'm glad you accepted the invite. > It's our committer responsibility to enable others to contribute and > again > I think you have been doing great. > > 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 me and send him a warm welcome and thank you. > > > [1] > http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/It-takes-a-village-Jean-Louis-td988516.html#a988522 > > -- > Jean-Louis Monteiro > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro > http://www.tomitribe.com
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