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- Testing and voting on a release
- Performing detailed and thorough review of all the contributions coming into the subproject(s)
- Actively participating in technical discussions in online and offline channels
- Provide content update and documentation for the project itself and its wiki
- Help manage project website and other collateral such as its social media
- Answer user questions on Slack, mailing list and other communication channels
- Diligently providing stewardship of project's IP
- Monitoring and maintaining the project's CI/CD pipeline and other infrastructure
- Present at technical conferences, meetup and other events
- Build something on top of the project and actively share your experience (or better yet help polish all the rough edges you bumped into int the project itself)
Since none of these responsibilities require a special committer status, it is expected that those Contributors who would like to become Committers demonstrate them ahead of time in order to trigger change of their status. In other words: the best way to apply for a job is to already be doing it.
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