Election for Ed Merks as Committer on Eclipse PDE

I am nominating Ed Merks for commit rights to PDE. He has fixed the following defects in PDE ( see list below)
Additionally, he is also the owner of org.eclipse.pde.ui.setup which will require maintenance over time ( for eg. Java
related updates in eclipse)

534129 PDE UI Provide a home for PDE.setup
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=534129
550591 PDE UI Please build the localbuild.xml as part of an incremental build too
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550591
550596 PDE Build Please export the org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.tasks package
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550596
550590 PDE Build Please build the localbuild.xml as part of an incremental build too
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550590
551581 PDE Build Fix files that have ended up with CRLF in the git repository
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551581
550584 PDE Build Add .ignore files for bin folders of example projects
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550584
550585 PDE UI Fix files that have ended up with CRLF in the git repository
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550585
533112 PDE UI Build entries for org.eclipse.ant.core.extraClasspathEntries produce bogus warnings
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533112
534084 PDE UI For org.eclipse.pde.genericeditor.extension.tests the .settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs are missing the Java compliance preferences
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=534084
533069 PDE UI RequiredPluginsClasspathContainer.addExtraClasspathEntries processing doesn't handle nested jars
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533069
229453 PDE UI Inappropriate build.properties errors for yet-to-be-built extra classpath jars that fail to update when the jar is built
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229453