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GitHub is a popular commercial Git hosting service. The ASF GIT repositories are mirrored there to increase visibility and to encourage more collaborators. The Infra team is responsible for maintaining the Github Apache Organisation. As an Apache committer you can also get added to the Team on GitHub, but this has no function for access control, it is purely to show off your affiliation. Some Apache Commons projects chose to advertise the related GitHub project (to accept pull requests or even problem reports). For example the README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md files produced by the build-plgin describe this workflow. If you accept a pull request, you have to apply it as a patch to the Apache WIP repository, this commit will then be propagated to the GitHub mirror. In the comment of the commit/merge you should use GitHub syntax (closes #xx) to close the PR. There is no other way to close pull requests, so to avoid opening a ticket to the Infra team . So to reduce the INFRA teams workload (to work on your tickets with close requests) remember this procedure.