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(This page is still likely to be under construction.)

Set Your Password

Generally, you should have sent in your desired password in 'htpasswd' format with the account request (I think that's the current idea).

The alternative is that, when When your account is created, the ASF infrastructure person will have sent you a password for cvs.apache.orgthe Apache servers.  This allows you to log in using SSH to set your SVN password, as described \[http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html#https-svn here\].  Here's a quick summary of what to do:

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Writable SVN checkout

When you become a contributor becomes a committer, you should check out the svn repository using the HTTPS url instead of the HTTP one, so that you have read/write access to the repo. To check out from scratch:

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The first time a file is checked in using svn commit, the committer you will be prompted for their your username and password. This will then be cached for all further commits.

You should first commit a change adding themselves yourself to the CREDITS file. If you want to do additional test commits, you can try something like adding a single newline to the end of an inoffensive file in a subdirectory, or and removing it again, would ; that should do the trick.

The first time you commit something your commit message needs to be moderated through, so don't be surprised if it doesn't show up for awhile.

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The PMC members should grant their your Bugzilla account with the 'EditBugs' status. I'm not sure how this is done, but Theo knows permission (if you don't already have it). This is done by following the "Users" link in Bugzilla and granting the EditBugs status.

More Details

Be sure to read \[http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html how-it-works.html\] -- there's lots of useful stuff about ASF processes there.

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