How can I become a committer

First of all you need to get involved and Contribute via the mail list, forums, edit the documentation, work on the issue tracker and submit patches.

Once you’re contributing and your work is good, one of our Team may invite you to be a committer (after we’ve called a vote). When that happens, if you accept, the following process kicks into place…​

Note that becoming a committer is not just about submitting some patches; its also about helping out on the development and user Discussion Forums, helping with documentation and the issue tracker.

When you have done that for a while, then someone from the Camel PMC team will invite you via email.

Becoming a committer steps

You will be invited, and the email have instructions how to proceed.

Getting started at Apache

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.

More information

You can find more information about being a committer at Apache here.

Getting Karma in JIRA and GitHub

Mail the dev list and ask for karma for JIRA / GitHub giving them details of your username you used to register with them both. We can then grant the necessary karma so you can start grabbing JIRA issues.