The issue of whether or not to require an apache.org email address for committers came up in a pull request a few days ago [1]. A change was made to the Committer’s Guide [2] requiring committers to use their apache.org email address.
This change was premature as it did not get consensus from the jclouds’ committers. The issue needs to be discussed before this change can be considered a requirement. Everett [1] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/397#issuecomment-45972870 [2] https://wiki.apache.org/jclouds/Committers%20Guide?action=diff