Title:     Mentoring a new committer
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# Mentoring a new committer

So I'm a committer now. What's next? What rights do I have now that I
didn't have before? What are the social conventions around making a
commit?

These things vary from one project to another, so clearly documenting
them for your particular project is critical.

Here's the basics that are true across (almost) all Apache projects.

TODO