Podlings, I wanted to raise a point to all, hence the direct emails.
The Whimsy PMC has put together a roster tool for managing the committers in a podling. Rather than managing the committer list in your status file, this will keep track and make sure we list out everyone's valid IDs. If you haven't accessed it, it can be found at https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/ppmc/ The Incubator guide has been updated to reflect this http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#podling+rosters Please reach out if you have any questions. John
