Election for vasil ilchev as Committer on Eclipse hawkBit

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Vasil Ilchev (vasilchev) has made an impact on the project. Since October 2023 he has had 61 pull requests merged into Eclipse hawkBit, covering the repository/JPA layer, rollouts, security, remote events and operational stability.

He has addressed the following bugs:
- RSQL map-attribute filters caused ghost joins and cross joins, which made queries hang in production: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3088,
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3268, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3273
- Rollout Error/Success conditions were skipped and the next group started anyway: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3110
- Renaming a target filter query didn't re-create the auto-assignment: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3263
- Wrong JdbcLockRegistry TTL: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3080
- NPE when DMF status messages contain null elements: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2119
- ActionStatus quota checked against the wrong status: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/1846, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/1847
- Remote event deserialization, tenant-awareness and Protostuff converter issues: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2583,
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2586, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2593
- Permission fixes: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2665, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2666
- OpenAPI and documentation issues #2745 and #2713: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2891

He has also designed and delivered several major features:
- Per-tenant DB connection throttling, which stops one tenant from using up the shared pool, with priority for system work and metrics:
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3345, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3403, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3422
- Migration of remote events from Spring Cloud Bus to Spring Cloud Stream: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2563
- The rollout "Pause" success action: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2867
- Tenant-level locking for the auto-assign scheduler: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2843
- A DMF RabbitMQ auto-declare option: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2960
- A review of @PreAuthorize across the Management API, with security tests: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2166,
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2167
- A proposed SDK refactoring: https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/1821

He has contributed schema and performance improvements (https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2922, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/2952,
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3217, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/pull/3284) and kept dependencies, CVE-driven version overrides and
Sonar findings up to date. He has reviewed more than 80 pull requests from other contributors, raised design issues such as RSQL exists/not-exists filtering for
complex data (https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/issues/2176), and answered user questions (https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/issues/2736,
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/issues/2743, https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/issues/2745,
https://github.com/eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit/issues/2747).

It is my pleasure to nominate Vasil Ilchev as a committer on Eclipse hawkBit.

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