Adding Myself as Mentor to the Incubator Proposal

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of signing up as mentor on the Incubator wiki and
thought I'd better introduce myself since I don't expect anybody around
here to know me.

Like many people I came to the ASF to scratch a few itches I encountered
with an existing project I used at work.  In my case it was JServ in
around 1998 but I mainly remained a pure user with the occasional bug
report back then.  But I gradually became more involved over time.  In
2000 I was voted in as a committer to Ant and later the year as a member
of the ASF.

Today I still am an active committer to Ant, the PMC chairman of Gump
and involved in a few smaller parts of Commons and the remainings of
Jakarta.  A few years ago I mentored Apache Ivy through incubation so I
already wear my Incubator scars.

During work hours the .NET platform has become my main development
target since 2005.  Even though all the ASF projects I'm involved in are
Java projects I'm very familiar with C# and the platform in general.

Early last year I coded up a prototype for a customer project (that
never took off) using Lucene.NET and recall how "wrong" it felt so I
fully understand and appreciate the need for an idiomatic API.

It's my goal to keep out of any technical decisions, that's really up to
the committers to decide.  I may find time to participate in the
discussions and even provide a patch or two but won't promise anything.

I hope I can contribute a small part to a successful reboot of the
project.  Let's enjoy the ride.

Stefan

-- 
http://stefan.samaflost.de/

Re: Adding Myself as Mentor to the Incubator Proposal

[Michael Herndon <mh...@o19s.com>]

Welcome =)





- Michael

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of signing up as mentor on the Incubator wiki and
> thought I'd better introduce myself since I don't expect anybody around
> here to know me.
>
> Like many people I came to the ASF to scratch a few itches I encountered
> with an existing project I used at work.  In my case it was JServ in
> around 1998 but I mainly remained a pure user with the occasional bug
> report back then.  But I gradually became more involved over time.  In
> 2000 I was voted in as a committer to Ant and later the year as a member
> of the ASF.
>
> Today I still am an active committer to Ant, the PMC chairman of Gump
> and involved in a few smaller parts of Commons and the remainings of
> Jakarta.  A few years ago I mentored Apache Ivy through incubation so I
> already wear my Incubator scars.
>
> During work hours the .NET platform has become my main development
> target since 2005.  Even though all the ASF projects I'm involved in are
> Java projects I'm very familiar with C# and the platform in general.
>
> Early last year I coded up a prototype for a customer project (that
> never took off) using Lucene.NET and recall how "wrong" it felt so I
> fully understand and appreciate the need for an idiomatic API.
>
> It's my goal to keep out of any technical decisions, that's really up to
> the committers to decide.  I may find time to participate in the
> discussions and even provide a patch or two but won't promise anything.
>
> I hope I can contribute a small part to a successful reboot of the
> project.  Let's enjoy the ride.
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> http://stefan.samaflost.de/
>