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In addition, there are some actions that are purely development-related, so they do not fall under the PMC mantle. Of course, people who happen to be on the PMC tend to do these, but committers could as well. Then again, a committer who was this active and responsible for the project would frequently end up being a project management committee member.:

• proposing and cutting releases
• scheduling
  

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Developers and contributors who contribute too much good code and not enough bad code usually become committers.

Committers with a long history of significant involvement in the advancement of the project and project development (ideally in more than one way), a strong ability to work with others in the ASF way, and who are not jerkwads are generally nominated to be on the PMC.  After the PMC has voted to add a new PMC member, the ASF board has to approve new PMC members; this is discussed \[http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html on how-it-works.html\].

There are no hard criteria for either of these roles: not lines of code nor number of patches. If you're interested, you can always send a message to the PMC to ask where you are on the radar.

Committers should probably ensure they're subscribed to \[http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#other the 'committers' and 'community' ASF mailing lists\].

We have adopted a policy whereby virtually all active committers are on the PMC. Here's how this works:

Any committer who (a) is not already on the PMC, (b) has been a committer for at least 6 months, and (c) has made a commit in the previous 3 months, may be offered an invitation to join the PMC. After a committer becomes eligible, a notice will be sent to the private@ mailing list, and allowed the usual 24hrs lazy consensus vote. Assuming that vote passes, the offer should stress what it means to be part of the PMC and that acceptance is an indication that they want to be involved. If they accept the offer, they are moved onto the PMC.

Any PMC member who has become inactive for a period of 6 months (ie. no commits or participation in the PMC/Development community) may be marked as an "emeritus" member of the PMC. At any time, an emeritus member can declare that they are active again, and the emeritus status will be revoked.

Current roles

See the \[http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/spamassassin/trunk/CREDITS?root=Apache-SVN&view=markup CREDITS page\].

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