What are the responsibilities of a Committer?
Note: this is an incomplete collection and not authoritative. As an Apache volunteer, you have the right to set your own priorities and do the work that scratches your own itch. As a Committer, you have a responsibility to the community to help create a product that will outlive the interest of any particular volunteer (including yourself). This means, for example, that the code that you commit should be clear enough that others not involved in its current development will be able to maintain and extend it. It also means that you are responsible for helping to grow and maintain the health of the Apache community. More specific responsibilities of Committers include: Deciding on release plans and releases A prime responsibility of the Committers is to decide when a branch of code is ready for release. A release is not to taken lightly; each release must uphold the Apache tradition of quality.
Note: this is an incomplete collection and not authoritative. As an Apache volunteer, you have the right to set your own priorities and do the work that scratches your own itch. As a Committer, you have a responsibility to the community to help create a product that will outlive the interest of any particular volunteer (including yourself). This means, for example, that the code that you commit should be clear enough that others not involved in its current development will be able to maintain and extend it. It also means that you are responsible for helping to grow and maintain the health of the Apache community. More specific responsibilities of Committers include: Deciding on release plans and releases A prime responsibility of the Committers is to decide when a branch of code is ready for release. A release is not to be taken lightly; each release must uphold the Apache tradition of quality. Each Project Management Committee formally authorizes the distribution of releases to the pu
