Instructions for Granting Karma to Committers
First, the account must be created. That process is detailed in the PMC FAQ http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html.
Infra no longer grants Karma unless specifically requested (usually because the PMC Chair is inactive or unresponsive), as outlined in the PMC FAQ, but it's easier for the PMC Chair to do it.
The instructions that used to bne on this page are now obsolete. The current procedure is now documented in a section of the above link, https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#SVNaccess