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The SpamAssassin project management committee (pmc at spamassassin.apache.org), like most other PMCs, is responsible for:

• adding new committers (and potentially removing)
• creating and destroying subprojects
• setting project direction
• handling public relations
• setting policy and procedures
  

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There's a private 'PMC list', called 'private at spamassassin.apache.org', but it's not to be used as a private mailing list of general discussions for PMC members only, as this is contrary to ASF policy. Instead, it's there to discuss sensitive stuff that needs to be moderately secret. Non-sensitive PMC discussions are held on the dev list. The ASF definition of what lives on the PMC private list is: 'issues that cannot be discussed in public, such as discussion of pre-disclosure security problems, pre-agreement discussions with third parties that require confidentiality, discussion of nominees for project or Foundation membership, and personal conflicts among project personnel.'

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Going from committer to PMC: Granted all permissions in Bugzilla. Apache email address added to pmc private at spamassassin.apache.org email list.

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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