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# Attributes of a Beam committer

These are the Beam PMC's expectations for all current and potential committers,
and encouraged for all community members.

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## Knows, upholds, and reinforces the Apache Software Foundation code of conduct

In particular, a Beam committer strives to:

- Be open
- Be empathetic
- Be welcoming
- Be friendly
- Be patient
- Be collaborative
- Be inquisitive
- Be careful in the words that they choose

[See the entire Code of Conduct](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct)

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## Knows, upholds, and reinforces the responsibilities of an Apache Software Foundation committer

- They help create a product that will outlive the interest of any particular volunteer (including themselves)
- They grow and maintain the health of the Apache community
- They help out with surrounding work, such as the website & documentation
- They help users
- They can be trusted to decide when code is ready for release, or when to ask someone else to make the judgment
- They can be trusted to decide when to merge code (if a code contributor) or when to ask someone else to make the judgment

[To learn more see the ASF documentation.](https://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#committer-responsibilities)

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## Knows, upholds, and reinforces the Beam community’s practices

- They have a proven commitment to the project
- They share their intentions with the community
- They accept and integrate community feedback in their plans, designs, code, etc.
- They earnestly try to make Beam better with their contributions

In particular, if a code contributor:

- They earnestly try to make Beam better with their own code
- They earnestly try to make Beam better with code review
- They accept and integrate feedback on their code
- They know, follow, and enforce Beam’s practices while reviewing/merging code - style, documentation, testing, backward compatibility, etc.