Re: Welcome Vigya Sharma to the Lucene PMC

Congratulations and welcome!

Feng

On 2025/08/02 16:20:16 Michael McCandless 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
>