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Comment: Add entry on committers, another important (organizational) distinction

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  • Podling PMC or PPMC.  This is the group of elected PMC members who have oversight of the project, who elect new committers and who vote to approve releases
  • Dev includes the C++/Java programmers, including specialists like UI design, accessibly, performance, core localization (Bidi, IME, etc.) etc. 
  • QA includes the testing, manual and automated
  • Translation/Localization provides the linguistic and cultural adaptability of the product
  • Documentation includes in-product help as well as web-hosted documentation
  • Support includes the support forums
  • Marketing includes publicity, events, whitepaper, promotion, etc.
  • Committers are the group of contributors elected by the PPMC and who have submitted an iCLA; they may perform any/many of the roles above, and also have the ability to checkin code to the repository and any wiki directly (this is not a functional distinction, more of an organizational one)

Project Milestones

There are several near-term milestones for the project that are inherent to the Apache Incubation process, and to the this project specifically:

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