This page details how to become a committer.
First of all you need to get involved and Contribute via the mail list, forum, issue tracker and submit patches.
Once you're contributing and your work is good, one of our Team might invite you to be a committer (after we've called a vote). When that happens, if you accept, the following process kicks into place...
Firstly add yourself to the Team page
Now go read the instructions on the new committers guide. Its also worth viewing http://www.apache.org/dev.
Once you've got your Apache account working you need to enable SVN access; See this document for details of using svnpasswd
http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html
You should follow this guide to setup your EOL settings.