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Explain what it is that you would do for the project if you were a committer.
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Adding New Committers
Offers of committership are extended by the existing uPortal committer community by vote on the email list for discussion of uPortal developers. Under apache tradition, 3 "+1" votes and more "+1" votes than committer vetoes are required for a committership vote to pass. The uPortal community has not formally adopted this rule, but it's as much of a rule as we've got.
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