New committer: Qingbo Jiao

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

He is currently working for AsiaInfo.

Qingbo contributed to several modules in Kyuubi consistently over 9 months.

In detail, his contributions are as follows

• Kyuubi Spark TPC-H Connector design and implementation
• Rework Kyuubi Hive JDBC driver to get rid of Hive dependencies
• Flink engine improvement
• Publish an article to show how to integrate Kyuubi w/ Apache Ambari[2]
• Bug fix and docs improvement.

Please join me in congratulating Qingbo Jiao!

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.