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## Becoming a Committer

All contributors who have landed significant and valuable contributions should be onboarded in a timely manner,
and added as a committer, and be given write access to the repository.
and added as a committer, and be given write access to the repository. Contributors with a long track record
of sustained involvement across the Express project may also be nominated as committers for a repository
even if they have not been active specifically in that package, provided they have the relevant technical
expertise. The nomination must come from a TC member or an existing captain of the same repository.

Committers are expected to follow this policy and continue to send pull requests, go through
proper review, and have other committers merge their pull requests.
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* Repos can have as many captains as make sense for the scope of work.
* A TC member or an existing repo captain **on the same project** can nominate a new captain.
Repo captains from other projects should not nominate captains for a different project.
* Contributors with a long track record of sustained involvement across the Express project
may be nominated as captains for a repository even if they have not been active
specifically in that package, provided they have the relevant technical expertise.
The nomination must come from a TC member or an existing captain of the same repository.

The PR will require at least 2 approvals from TC members and 2 weeks hold time to allow
for comment and/or dissent. When the PR is merged, a TC member will add them to the
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