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 So, you've decided to invite a community member to be a committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member, what do you do?
 
-1. Send a [VOTE] thread to private@
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+1. Send a [VOTE] thread to private@
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 See https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html#committer-vote-template and https://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html#pmc-vote-template