by Eric Pugh On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! On July 2nd, 2007, I opened SOLR-284 , a ticket for adding content extraction to Solr. A committer on an open source project... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:21PM Aug 03, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Marvin Humphrey I "arrived" at the Apache Software Foundation in 2005, unreasonably angry about a bug in Apache Lucene. By "arrived", I mean that I sent the first few emails among several thousand I would go on to send over the next 15 years — the ASF didn't have a physical office where I could show up to buttonhole... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:05PM May 11, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
by Jarek Potiuk During my career, I have been a software engineer, Tech Lead Manager at Google, a robotics engineer at an AI and robotics startup, and am currently the Principal Software Engineer of a software house, Polidea, which I helped grow from 6 to 60 people within 6 years as CTO. Over the past year and a half I was a user, then... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:46AM Apr 06, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache