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Committers
List of project-management committee (PMC) members and committers on the Apache Arrow project.

Apache Arrow Project Governance

The Arrow project is a part of the Apache Software Foundation and follows its project management guidelines, which promote community-led consensus decisionmaking, independent of commercial influence.

Project Management Committee (PMC)

The PMC governs the project. Members vote on important decisions, including releases and inviting committers to join the PMC.

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Committers

Contributors who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the project may be invited by the PMC to become committers. Committers are authorized to merge code patches to the project's repositories and serve as non-voting project maintainers. See the "Becoming a committer" section below for more details.

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Becoming a committer

There are many ways to contribute to the Apache Arrow project, including issue reports, documentation, tests, and code. Contributors with sustained, high-quality activity may be invited to become committers by the PMC as a recognition of their sustained contribution to the project. A committer can commit changes directly in all Arrow GitHub repositories, and have the significant responsibility of using their status and access to improve the Arrow project for the entire community.

When considering to invite someone to be a committer, the PMC looks for contributors who are doing the work and exercising the judgment expected of a committer already. After all, any contributor can do all of the things a committer does except for merge a PR. While there is no set list of requirements, nor a checklist that entitles one to commit privileges, typical behaviors include:

  • Contributions beyond pull requests, such as reviewing other pull requests, fixing bugs and documentation, triaging issues, answering community questions, improving usability, reducing technical debt, helping with CI, verifying releases, debugging in strange environments, etc.

  • These contributions to the project should be consistent in quality and sustained over time, typically on the order of 6 months or more.

  • Assistance growing the size and health of the community via constructive, respectful, and consensus driven interactions, as described in our Code of Conduct and the Apache Way.

The mechanics of how the process works is documented here. If you feel you should be offered committer privileges, but have not been, you can reach out to one of the PMC members or the private@arrow.apache.org mailing list.