New committer: Zhen Wang

The Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) for Apache Kyuubi has invited Zhen Wang to become our committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted.

Zhen contributed to several modules in Kyuubi consistently over 6 months, including both the Kyuubi server and Spark SQL engine.

The enhancements he made to Kyuubi server:

• Added connection concurrency limit to kyuubi server
• Added the digest Zookeeper authentication mode to the service discovery module
• Optimized orphan engine related issues

The features and enhancements he made to Spark SQL engine:

• Implemented a history server plugin of Kyuubi to Spark
• Implemented the execution progress of Spark SQL statements
• Supported single session mode of the Spark SQL engine
• Participated in the discussion and optimization of the engine pool.

He also helps review other developers’ pull requests actively in the community.

Please join me in congratulating Zhen!

Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better productivity. A PPMC member helps manage and guide the direction of the project.