On 15/06/2011 20:18, Joe Schaefer wrote:

> At the ASF being a committer takes on a more general meaning than simply
> being another code developer.  There are lots of ways to contribute meaningfully
> to the non-coding aspects of a project in areas of the ASF that are only
> available
> to people with committer karma.

Absolutely. In fact on the first project I worked on in the ASF we 
defined "committer" as someone who was committed to the project.

Ross