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It is the responsibility of committers to help fellow contributors to achieve a successful resolution of issues in JIRA.

Committers should try, as much as possible, to avoid that patch files submitted to issues grow stale. It is a waste of effort and precious time on the part of a fellow contributor when patches grow stale, as rework needs to be done. Timely evaluation of patch files prevents the need for rework and re-evaluation. Showing interest in the work of fellow contributors builds better relationships and a healty community.

When doing so, an efficient rule of thumb for productivity is the Ten minutes rule: if you can commit a patch in less than 10 minutes then just do it! Of course not all the day long.

Another important responsibility of a committer is participating in voting, especially the ones for new releases..