New committer: Min Zhao

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

Min Zhao contributed to several modules in Kyuubi consistently over 9 months, including both the Kyuubi server and engines.

In detail, his contributions are as follows:

• Separate events to a submodule, and support events for Hive engine and Trino engine
• Participate in support Hive engine. add process builder, option parser, provide a few configurations, etc
• Supporting jdbc engine
• Add a few UDF for Spark engine
• Implement BatchesResource GET /batches
• Participate in authz module, add FilteredShowFunctionsCommand and FilteredShowDatabasesCommand
• A few bug fix and docs improvement

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

Please join me in congratulating Min Zhao!

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.