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Voting in a new committer

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If a developer has contributed a signicant number of high-quality patches, is interested in continuing the contribution, and has @@ -21,8 +20,49 @@ to grant the developer commit access.

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Process details

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+ Below is a more detailed breakdown of the voting process from the + perspective of the committer who proposes the vote. +

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  1. + It is a good practice to first make an informal nomination on the + private project committer or PPMC list to check that there are no + objections to giving committer access to the nominated contributor. + If there are objections, then they can be resolved in private or the + committer vote can be postponed or cancelled without raising personal + issues on the public mailing list. +
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  2. + The formal vote is proposed by sending a [VOTE] message to the + developer mailing list and the general Incubator mailing list + (general@incubator.apache.org). The message subject should identify + the vote and the body should contain the nomination and brief voting + instructions. Good examples can be found in + the + archives. +
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  3. + Both the project committers and the Incubator PMC members are entitled + to vote. See the + voting page + for information on how to express votes. In a normal ASF project the + project PMC makes the decision on adding a new committer. In a podling + project it is the Incubator PMC that has formal right to accept + new committers. This is the reason for sending the committer vote also + to the Incubator mailing list. +
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  4. + A committer vote requires at least three positive votes (+1) and no + objections (-1) to pass. Because of the above, there needs to be at + least three positive votes from the Incubator PMC for the + vote to pass. For examples of how the vote can proceed, please see + the + archives. +
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