> I'm also interested in helping, and have contributed a few patches. > Unfortunately, as Stephen indicated, because there aren't many > interested committers, patches tend to languish for a while before > anyone has time to look at them. A few weeks ago, someone looked at > the patch I submitted in May (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ > COLLECTIONS-253), and appeared to approve of it, but it hasn't yet > been committed. > > Anyway, I'd also be happy to do additional work on this project, but > have gotten a little discouraged by the pace.
In fact, there are several people out there (at least you and me) interested to contribute and speed up development, but without being authorized to commit code. Project admins, how about allowing us be active committers?