DSpace Committers have autonomous control over the code and are also the primary support team for DSpace. The primary responsibilities of Committers are:
The Committers group is a meritocracy -- members are added from the pool of volunteer contributors based on merit. Anyone may be nominated as a Committer by anyone else. Only existing Committers may vote to add a nominated person to the Committers group.
The following individuals are current Committers for DSpace open source software:
Emeritus Committers are those who, for one reason or another, are no longer able to contribute code to DSpace on a regular basis. They are still members of the Committers Group, but are currently acting in an advisory role within the DSpace development community. We wish to recognize the contributions each of these individuals has made to DSpace software over the years. Their code contributions and guidance have played an integral part in helping to make DSpace what it is today.
As much as possible, Committers ensure that all DSpace technology decisions are transparent to the developer community. (The only exception is when security issues require us to resolve them before they are publicly reported)