Developers > Becoming a committer
This page details how to become a committer.
First of all you need to get involved and Contribute via the mail list, forums, edit the documention, work on the issue tracker and submit patches.
Once you‘re contributing and your work is good, one of our Team may invite you to be a committer (after we’ve called a vote). When that happens, if you accept, the following process kicks into place...
Note that becoming a committer is not just about submitting some patches; its also about helping out on the development and user Discussion Forums, helping with documentation and the issue tracker.
Firstly add yourself to the Team page
Now go read the instructions on the new committers guide. Its also worth viewing http://www.apache.org/dev.
Once you've got your Apache account working you need to enable GIT access**.** Add your SSH Key at https://id.apache.org/
Configure GIT to use unix line endings.
git config --add core.autocrlf input
Mail the dev list and ask for karma for JIRA / Confluence giving them details of your username you used to register with them both. We can then grant the necessary karma so you can start grabbing JIRA issues or editing the wiki