My dear colleague and friend Nicolas Lalevée has been elected committer on Ant/Ivy, the dependency management tool that allows the use of Maven repositories without the pain of Maven, for his work on the Eclipse plugin for Ivy.
I've been working with Nico for two years, and he's one of the main guys behind the Joost search engine, powered by Lucene, another popular Apache product.
Congrats and welcome in the big Apache tribe!