Re: Welcome Vigya Sharma to the Lucene PMC

Congratulations and welcome to the PMC, Vigya!
Dawid

On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM Michael McCandless <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Lucene developers,
>
> I'm happy to announce that Vigya Sharma has accepted an invitation to
> join the Lucene Project Management Committee (PMC)!  Vigya's engagement
> in the Lucene community in the three years since he joined as committer has
> been impactful -- attending and presenting talks at Community Over Code
> (COC), mentoring CMU open source summer students, co-chairing this year's
> upcoming COC NA Search track in Minneapolis (I hope to see some of you all
> there!)
>
> The PMC is the next step after committership in the meritocracy for each
> Apache Software Foundation project.  This step happens when a committer
> shows continued attention not only for the project's source code but also
> for the overall user and developer community ("community over code").  The
> PMC governs the community health, interacts with the board (submitting
> quarterly community health reports, published at
> https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Lucene.html), elects new
> committers and PMC members, provides binding votes for new Lucene releases,
> and addresses security issues and any other private/special escalations.
>
> Read more about PMCs here: https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html
>
> Congratulations Vigya, thank you for all your hard work improving
> Lucene's community and source code, and welcome aboard!
>
> Mike McCandless
>
> http://blog.mikemccandless.com
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