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This page details how to become a committer.

First of all you need to get involved and [Contribute|Contributing] 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...

h3. Becoming a committer steps

* Download and print the Apache Contributor License Agreement from [here|http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html]. You need to sign it and fax it to Apache. In the past I've found its often faster to also post it via snail mail :)
* wait for your name to appear on the list of [received CLAs|http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html#unlistedclas]
* once thats done let us know and we can apply to Apache Infrastructure to have your account created; we'll also need to know
** your full name
** your preferred email address
** your preferred unix account name

h3. Getting started at Apache

Firstly add yourself to the [Team] page

Now go read the instructions on the [new committers guide|http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html]. Its also worth viewing http://www.apache.org/dev.

h3. Enabling your SVN account

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

h3. Configuring SVN

You should follow [this guide|http://www.apache.org/dev/svn-eol-style.txt] to setup your EOL settings.