Hello, Your question is valis. But the answer is might be a little fuzzy.
From a formal view an Apache Project needs a PMC with some members and some committers (all PMC members are "committers", but some committers might not be PMC members).
But that is not the whole truth, esp. not for the Apache OpenOffice project.This project and its community is much larger than the PMC and the group of "committers". There are people doing for example user support in a great way without being committers. (They do not need committer's rignts for doing it.) There are some more examples.
Someone can also do a job normally a committer does if (s)he has a committer as "sponsor".
So being part of the Apache OpenOffice project and its community depends oo a nonformal acceptance by "peers", not on a formal status.
Everybody can release binaries of AOO because it is Free Software."Community binaries" are built by committers and tested by anybody. They are published as versions on the basis of a vote of the committers, needing a minimum of positive votes of PMC members (so called binding votes).
But anybody who uses the trademark in a fair manner can build and distribute AOO binaries.
Don't forget: Life is not black and white (binary); it's colorful! Kind regards Michael )Am 19.01.21 um 22:00 schrieb Steve Lubbs:
Maybe it is that there is a Fuzziness on who is the Project? Who releases the Community binary version? Who releases the binary OS/2 Version and Who releases the Source Code?
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