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The most important participants in the project are people who use our software. The majority of our developers start out as users and guide their development efforts from the user's perspective.
Users contribute to the Apache projects by providing feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature suggestions. As well, users participate in the Apache community by helping other users on mailing lists and user support forums.
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The project's Committers are responsible for the project's technical management. Committers have write access to the projects source code repositories.
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Any committer can make a release candidate and call for a vote on making it an official release.
A committer who makes a sustained contribution to the project may be invited to become a member of the PMC.
The forms of contribution are not limited to only code. It can also include code reviews, helping out users on the mailing lists, documentation, testing, etc.
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Committers can veto code check ins but committers votes are not binding on releases.
A committer who makes a sustained contribution to the project may be invited to become a member of the PMC.
Release Manager
A Release Manager (RM) is a committer who volunteers to produce a Release Candidate.
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