Welcome Paul!
Two places to read if you haven't are the roles at the ASF:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles
It's important to note that sending the CLA alone doesn't make you a
committer - you must first cont
Fellow Developers,
I am new to this mailing list, and I wanted to take a moment to
introduce myself. I
have been a Java developer since 2001, and an open source advocate since the
mid-90s. It would be an honor to volunteer a part of my time to work on
several Apache projects which I have found to
