Re: Please welcome Keith Bennett as a Tika committer!

> Dear Tika community,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Keith Bennett ((kbennett@...) has
> been elected as a Tika committer by the Tika podling PMC and the
> incubator PMC (as required by the incubator policies, both must vote,
> see [1]).
>
> The Tika PMC would like to mention that:
>
> 1) This is quicker than usual, because Tika is just beginning and
> Keith happens to be here just at the right time to help us move Tika
> forward. Becoming a committer will usually take longer!
>
> 2) Asking for committership is usually not the way to get it ;-)
>
> Keith's steady stream of contributions in the last few weeks have more
> than offset this initial faux pas, so we're happy to announce his
> nomination!
>
> Keith, if you accept the nomination, please let me know your preferred
> username for your @apache account (see [2] for existing usernames).
> Your CLA and email address are already on file, so that's all we need
> to have your account created (but that will take a few days as account
> requests are usually processed in batches).
>
> Welcome, and feel free to let us know a bit more about yourself if you
> like - this is not only about code.
>
> -Bertrand
>
> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html
> [2] http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html