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.