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Apache Kudu Committers and PMC Members

Following is a list of current Kudu committers and members of the Kudu PMC.

Username	Name	Role
abukor	Attila Bukor	PMC
achennaka	Abhishek Chennaka	PMC
adar	Adar Dembo	PMC
alexey	Alexey Serbin	PMC
awong	Andrew Wong	VP, PMC
bankim	Bankim Bhavsar	PMC
bchang	Binglin Chang	PMC
danburkert	Dan Burkert	PMC
dralves	David Alves	PMC
granthenke	Grant Henke	PMC
hahao	Hao Hao	PMC
helifu	LiFu He	PMC
jarcec	Jarek Jarcec Cecho	PMC
jdcryans	Jean-Daniel Cryans	PMC
jfarrell	Jake Farrell	PMC
jtbirdsell	Jordan Birdsell	PMC
julien	Julien Le Dem	PMC
laiyingchun	Yingchun Lai	PMC
mattmann	Chris Mattmann	PMC
misty	Misty Linville	PMC
mpercy	Mike Percy	PMC
sailesh	Sailesh Mukil	PMC
shenxingwuying	Yuqi Du	PMC
stack	Michael Stack	PMC
todd	Todd Lipcon	PMC
wdberkeley	William Berkeley	PMC
yaoxu	Yao Xu	PMC
yaozhang	Yao Zhang	PMC
zhangyifan	Yifan Zhang	PMC

Committership is a recognition of an individual’s contribution within the Apache Kudu community, including, but not limited to:

• Writing quality code and tests
• Writing documentation
• Improving the website
• Participating in code review (+1s are appreciated! Reviews help reduce the burden on other committers)
• Voting on release candidates (non-binding votes are appreciated! Trying out release candidates helps expand test coverage in more environments)
• Answering questions on public forums, like Slack, mailing lists, etc.
• Participating in feature design discussions
• Participating in Jira discussions
• Evangelizing Kudu at conferences, meetups, etc.
• Operating Kudu deployments, potentially testing bug fixes and features, and sharing feedback to the community
• Sustained contribution to the Kudu project and community

While not all of these are required to become a committer, they are all taken into account when considering contributors for committership. There is no set number of commits required, set number of lines of code merged, or set number of questions answered that will automatically qualify someone for committership. The Kudu PMC will take note of contributors and periodically vote on them, based on past contributions and interactions with the community.

Committership is an acknowledgement from the Kudu PMC that a contributor has demonstrated solid judgement in their contributions, and demonstrated that they are thoughtful and collaborative when working on trickier contributions.

If PMC membership is also granted, committership comes with the privilege to vote on matters that affect the wider Kudu community, including merging code, moving forward on releases, and introducing new committers. Committership is intended for those who are interested in the project’s future and want to take a more active role in shaping it.

For more details about how the Apache Software Foundation defines contributors and committers, see the Apache Contributors page.