The project to which PMC members belong is Apache Logging Services. When a committer is invited they have access to all the logging project repositories except for the one area that is limited to PMC members.
If you plan on making significant contributions you should sign an ICLA. Yes, there are a few steps in a release that require a PMC member but most of the release process can be accomplished by a committer. That said, acting as a release manager is a quick way to get invited to any ASF PMC :-) Ralph > On Jan 4, 2020, at 7:42 PM, Robert Middleton <osfan6...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 10:52 AM Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de > <mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de>> wrote: >> >> Guten Tag Robert Middleton, >> am Dienstag, 31. Dezember 2019 um 21:44 schrieben Sie: >> >>> [...]so what is the best way to become a contributor/committer? >> >> I suggest you start reading through the following docs: >> >>> A committer is a developer that was given write access to the code >>> repository and has a signed Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on >>> file. They have an apache.org mail address. >> >> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#committers >> > > Thanks for that, I haven't seen that page before. > >> https://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html >> <https://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html> >> https://community.apache.org/contributors/ >> <https://community.apache.org/contributors/> >> > > After re-reading these, I wonder who are the PMC members for log4cxx > at the moment, and is it the same people as for log4j(e.g. Ralph, > Matt, etc.)? And would it make sense for me to sign a CLA, or would > that not be helpful? > >> The following covers what needs to be done for releases: >> >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html >> http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html >> >> Some parts have already been automated using "release_*.sh"-scripts in >> the root of the project, I think up to the point on which releases >> where tagged, build and uploaded to the following staging repo: >> >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/logging/log4cxx >> >> After that point, if I remember correctly, people need to vote on the >> release, it needs to be moved to the release-repo "somehow" and your >> keys used to sign the release should have been added to the keys of >> the release-repo BEFOREHAND. > > From my reading of the documentation, the release repo is just an SVN > repository that the signed packages go to. See: > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#upload-ci > <http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#upload-ci> > Although this goes back to who exactly is PMC, since according to the > documentation only the PMC members have the rights to upload... > > -Robert Middleton
