introducing Eric Ehlers, ObjectHandler, and how to contribute to QuantLib

[Ferdinando Ametrano-3]

Hi all

following up the latest news about the release of ObjectHandler 0.1.0
please let me welcome Eric Ehlers in the (developer) QuantLib Team.

Eric's work (both ObjectHandler and the forthcoming QuantLibAddin) marks
the first outstanding large contribution from someone not connected with
the original QuantLib founding team.

Besides the code he actually provided, he was also the first one to
effectively adopt our "how to contribute to QuantLib" guidelines:
http://quantlib.org/newdeveloper.shtml

I apologize to whoever feels that the QuantLib team has not given him
enough support in order to help contributions, and encourage everybody to
go ahead: read the guidelines, select a topic (scratch your itch!), write a
QuEP (a.k.a QuantLib Enhancement Proposal), and contribute your code to
QuantLib.

Last but not least the QuantLib team look forward to feedback about Eric's
QuEPs:
- QuEP 11 "Object Handler" http://quantlib.org/quep/quep011.html
- QuEP 12 "QuantLibAddin" http://quantlib.org/quep/quep012.html


ciao -- Nando