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News About Apache Avro
New Project Logo
The Apache Avro project has a new project logo!
The old logo was derived from the logo of a (now defunct) aircraft manufacturer in Great Britain. This posed a risk, as the Apache foundation would not contest legal action (even if extremely unlikely).
But thanks to Emma Kellam, we now have a new logo! She has made several logo designs, and after some debate and several votes (it was a close call!), we can announce the new logo:
The new logo is an homage to the previous logo, which is also triangular and uses blue colours. The paper airplane embodies keywords like ‘fast’, ‘small’ and ’efficient’. The blobby tail left behind by the airplane makes the icon unique and embodies ‘flow’ and ’transformation’.
All in all a very nice logo for Apache Avro, which embodies the same keywords.
Thanks for all your hard work Emma, and welcome!
New committer: Christophe Le Saec
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Christophe Le Saec to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Christophe definitely puts in the work and, has an impressive breadth of knowledge about the languages of the Avro SDK!
As an ASF project, we tend to be very conservative about making changes, and Christophe brings in fresh ideas and very quickly proposes concrete implementations to prove them. He has a good understanding of Avro, the motivation to move things forward, and the expertise to make changes! At the same time, he’s easy to talk to and flexible in coming to a consensus.
Thanks for all your hard work!
New committer: Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Oscar has done some really solid work on the IDL and JavaCC parts of the Java SDK. We trust his work and think it’s exceptionally high quality. From the start, he has already doing much of the work of a committer, demonstrated by his continuous presence in commenting JIRA, reviewing PRs as well as encouraging and insightful words on the mailing list.
As a bonus, in his spare time, Oscar also maintains the IntelliJ plugin for IDL support!
Thanks for all your hard work, and welcome!
New PMC member: Michael A. Smith
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Michael A. Smith to the PMC and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Notably, Michael has taken a leadership role in ensuring the quality of the Python SDK, lending his expertise to ensure that Avro has a place in the python community, while keeping our implementation up-to-date with standards and modern versions. It’s not an easy task, and we appreciate all he does!
New PMC member: Martin Grigorov
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro is pleased to announce that Martin Grigorov has accepted our invitation to become a PMC member. He has has been active, reliable and responsive to the community and a solid contributor to various SDKs, bringing well-thought out reviews and comments to both old and new PRs and JIRA. He definitely stepped up for the website refactoring and preparing for the 1.11.1 release!
Please join me in welcoming Martin to the Avro PMC!
New committer: Zoltan Csizmadia
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Zoltan Csizmadia to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Zoltan has been present in the C# SDK for over two years and has really increased his activity in maintaining this language in the last few months. He knows the technology, but more importantly, he is patient and works well with those of us who rely on the expertise of others. Recently, he has been engaging with other contributors to increase the maintainability and quality of the dotnet code, and we have confidence in his decisions to balance stability of the established code and the expectations of modern C# developers.
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.
Please join me in congratulating Zoltan on his recognition of great work thus far in our community.
New committer: Martin Grigorov
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited Martin Grigorov to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Over the last few months, he has been active, reliable and easy to work with on PRs and on the mailing list. His work is of high quality, and he has a breadth of experience in many of the SDK languages. I’m especially keen to point out the work he’s been doing on the website!
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.
It’s great to have you as part of the team, Martin!
New committer: David Mollitor
The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Avro has invited David Mollitor to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.
Since 2017, David has raised and fixed many issues in the Java SDK. Recently he’s been finding and providing fixes for subtle performance issues. His work is always high-quality and he is reactive and pleasant to talk with on code reviews and JIRA.
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.
It’s great to have you as part of the team, David!
Avro joins Apache
Avro has joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Hadoop subproject.