(1) How can I become an Apache committer? - Quora

(1) How can I become an Apache committer? - Quora

There are updates to this page that haven't been applied because you've entered text. Refresh this page to see updates. 12 upvotes by Quora User, Firstly, you need to use it as a user. If you don't even use it, you can't be the committer. Then you can join the mailing list (there are usually 3 mailing list for each project, the user, dev, and commit, and you only need to join the user mailing list) to get to know what they are currently doing. When you get familiar with what they discuss in the mailing list, you can try to solve some issues that are listed on their JIRA issue tracker (each project has a issue tracker board). At the very beginning, you can submit your patch and wait for their review. If you pass the code review, the committers will submit your code to the code base. When you have enough contribution, you can become the committer, who has the commit permission to the code base. As most of the projects are written in Java, so be sure you are comfortable with it. Moreover,

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