Hi there, I wanted to suggest that, in the emails announcing new committers, one or two sentences could describe in what area the new committer has been contributing. The emails currently feel pretty bland to me, and adding a little personal content couldn't hurt. Another thing to add could be how they are related to CouchDB (e.g. if they're contributing on behalf of their employer, if they're using CouchDB or a related project for some interesting project of their own).
Another, related problem with the emails that I see: though I'm no longer closely tracking what's happening in the broader CouchDB ecosystem, it feels weird to me that the announcements happen on the dev@ list, when some of the committers being announced have ostensibly never even sent a single email there. I don't really have a suggestion for solving this. Cheers, Dirkjan
