Finally I don't have commit access I believe to the Nutch project. Is this something that would be possible for me to get? I'd love to help out. Do I have to go through an interview or something ;) ?
Formally, to become a committer on an Apache project you need to be nominated and elected by the Project Management Committee (PMC).
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles
While Nutch is in the incubator the Incubator's PMC is the PMC in question. If Nutch graduates to become a sub-project of the Lucene top-level project, then the Lucene PMC would make the decision.
Practially, what happens is that, if someone submits a series of substantial patches that illustrate knowledge of the system, and these patches are well-constructed (easy to apply, well documented, etc), illustrating knowledge of the development process, then that person is invited to become a committer.
In other words, if existing committers are able to consistently apply someone's patches with commands as simple as
patch -p0 < patch.txt svn commit -m "Fixed bug #XXX."
i.e., with no other edits required, then there's no reason not to let this person commit things directly. So first you must prove yourself worthy.
Doug
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