Github user mike-jumper commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-guacamole-website/pull/49#discussion_r151745293
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@@ -104,19 +103,19 @@ a committer not otherwise directly involved in those
changes.
* [Promoting a release candidate to release](/release-procedures-part3/)
* [Announcing the release](/release-procedures-part4/)
-PPMC members
-------------
+PMC members
+-----------
-The Apache Guacamole PPMC is responsible for project oversight. PPMC
members
-participate in discussions on the [mailing lists](/support/#mailing-lists)
and
-vote on release candidates, new committers, and new PPMC members. Like
-[committers](#committers) (who are implicitly PPMC members), the PPMC is
-responsible for identifying members of the community who have shown
-[merit](#meritocracy) warranting committership or PPMC membership.
+The Apache Guacamole PMC is made up of committers and is responsible for
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> So are they not equivalent then? Can somebody be a PMC member but not a
committer?
Nope. All PMC members are by definition committers, but not all committers
are PMC members. From https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles:
>
> COMMITTER
> ---------
>
> A *committer* is a developer that was given write access to the code
repository and has a signed [Contributor License Agreement
(CLA)](http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas) on file. They have an apache.org
mail address. Not needing to depend on other people for the patches, they are
actually making short-term decisions for the project. The PMC can (even
tacitly) agree and approve it into permanency, or they can reject it. Remember
that the PMC makes the decisions, not the individual committers.
>
> PMC MEMBER
> ----------
> A *PMC member* is a developer or a committer that was elected due to
merit for the evolution of the project and demonstration of commitment. They
have write access to the code repository, an apache.org mail address, the right
to vote for the community-related decisions and the right to propose an active
user for committership. The PMC as a whole is the entity that controls the
project, nobody else. In particular, the PMC must vote on any formal release of
their project's software products.
>
The distinction between PMC member and committer is defined at the
foundation level. Though PPMC/committer equivalency was a simple decision in
our podling days, PMC membership for any project requires board approval (or at
least ... 72-hour lack of board disapproval:
http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newpmc).
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