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| title: "Becoming a Committer" |
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| The Apache Devlake (Incubating) community follows the [Apache Software Foundation's guidelines](https://community.apache.org/contributors/) on accepting new committers. |
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| First, we deeply value the contribution from our community, in the forms of writing code, answering questions, maintaining documentation, arranging events, among a plethora of others. New contributors will always be welcomed by the current members of DevLake community, helped with PR workflow, and directed to relevant documentation and communication channels. |
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| Moving from a contributor to a committer, we expect you to be an active member of the community and committed to the project in the long run. |
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| First of all, we would like to see a substantial amount of work from you, such as developing and maintaining an entire data plugin. |
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| Besides code contribution, you also need to participate in the discussion via the [dev mailing list](../subscribe.md), edit the documentation, work on the issue tracker, help answering questions in the community, attend community events, etc. |
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| Once your contribution becomes influential in the community, you may be invited to become a committer (after the voting from current PPMC members) and will be provided with further guidance on the following process. |