Re: New PostgreSQL Committers

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:49:13AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On behalf of the core team, I'm pleased to announce that the
> PostgreSQL Project has expanded it's team of "committers", those
> people who are able to make direct changes to the PostgreSQL source
> code respository. As the project is extremely conservative about any
> changes made to the source code to minimise the risk of introducing
> any bugs, commit access is only given to contributors who have
> consistently shown they work to a very high standard and have shown
> commitment to the project.

Congratulations to all! :)

Cheers,
David.
>
> The new committers are:
>
> Robert Haas: Robert developed the commitfest.postgresql.org website
> which is used to manage the process by which features are added to
> PostgreSQL. He has twice acted as commitfest manager, and submitted
> numerous patches such as join removal, auto-generation of headers &
> bki files and the TRUNCATE privilege.
>
> Simon Riggs: Simon is well know for working on large enterprise
> features for PostgreSQL, including Point In Time Recovery and
> partitioning. Simon is currently working on allowing PITR slave
> servers to be used for read-only queries.
>
> Greg Stark: Greg has worked on low-level features in PostgreSQL,
> including asynchronous pre-fetching of data and packed variable length
> data types. Greg was also responsible for the CREATE INDEX
> CONCURRENTLY feature.
>
> ITAGAKI Takahiro: ITAGAKI-san has worked on countless patches for
> PostgreSQL, both fixing bugs and writing new features, recently
> including WHEN clauses for triggers, a buffer usage feature for
> EXPLAIN and a new implementation of VACUUM FULL.
>
> Congratulations!
>
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> Dave Page
> PostgreSQL Core Team
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