> > With 13 binding +1, 1 non binding, and one "accordez moi", > I'm pleased to > > announce that this vote passed successfully. > > > > Nicolas, we are honoured to welcome you as a new Apache Ant committer. > > > > I will contact you in private to give you some details on what you need to > > do now to wear your ASF committer hat :-) > > > > Welcome aboard! > > > I am honoured to be part of the Apache family. :) > > Following the tradition let's introduce myself. > > I am 27 years old, french, and I live in Toulouse, while > being in the heart a > mediterranean as all my childhood was in front of the see. > > I started to not only use computers but try to improve them > with a Ti-89 > calculator [1]. So I started at a very low level with some > 68k asm, and then > I quickly learned C to avoid some headache. > > Then I discovered Java in my french engineering school which > I found pretty > cool in transforming segmentation faults into NPEs. After my > graduation I did > an internship at Anyware Technologies where I discovered the web > applications, the open source and the Apache Foundation via > Sylvain Wallez. > Thank you Sylvain for introducing me to the Apache projects, > but most of all > to the community aspect of the foundation. > > Working on different projects I learned first about Cocoon, > then I did some > Eclipse plugins. After that I deeply looked into Lucene, also > OpenRDF, and > learned about Ivy after some maven frustration. I also get > interested by > Husdon, did an Ivy plugin and became a committer there. Then > little on my own > (I would like to thank my managers to allow me to do so) I > decided to try to > make IvyDE work because I was bugging me and a lot of my > colleagues, forcing > us to use some tricks. I had some difficulties to enter into > the Eclipse JDT > framework, but some thread on the ivy user mailing list keep > me investigating > bugs. Now that I know deeper Eclipse, I will continue to > improve IvyDE > because I think that even if Ant + Ivy can be a standalone > core build system, > tools for users do make the difference between a application > and a great > application. > > Thank you everyone! > > Nicolas > > [1] http://www.hibnet.org/ti.php > > PS: special dedication to my father who wrote me a dedication in his > book : "you have to contribute to the open source !". Done dad ! ;)
Welcome Nicolas. Maybe you could update the committer page when you have commit rights. Jan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
