James, According to Jakarta's "roles and responsibilities" [http://jakarta.apache.org/site/roles.html] "In order for a Developer to become a Committer, another Committer can nominate that Developer or the Developer can ask for it. Once a Developer is nominated, all of the Committers for a subproject will vote. If there are at least 3 positive votes and no negative votes, the Developer is converted into a Committer and given write access to the source code repository for that subproject. This is an example offer letter that should be sent to the developer after 3 positive votes have been received:" Here is the letter: " Dear Developer, The Jakarta project would like to offer you commit privilidges. We have been impressed with your contributions up till now, and believe that your involvement will improve the quality of the libraries we produce. It is important that you realize that these commit privilidges give you access to the specific Jakarta project repository for which you are invovled with. They do not provide commit access to any other Apache based project. Those projects will have to grant you commit privilidges themselves. If you are interested in having commit privilidges, please just let us know, and we will setup an account on apache.org. It would expedite the process if you could provide your prefferred account name and possibly a public SSH key. This process could take a few days once we get this information. We all hope that you accept this invitation." -- Pierre, for the jakarta-taglibs community ----- "Once there are 3 positive votes and the response to the above letter has been received, someone from the project community who already has commit access should send email to: root NOSPAM apache.org that the account should be created. The following information must be included in the email: ...." We got at least 3 positive votes. So, if you will kindly reply to this letter :-), I will then send the official email to apache.org's root. (Also, please tell me which userid you'd want for your apache account) -- Pierre
