Hi Surya,
Thanks for your interest in contributing. The first thing to
look at is the
contributor
reference. That will answer a lot of your questions.
The process for becoming a committer is that you must first
make substantial contributions to a project (e.g. many bug
fixes or some major features). If your contributions are of a
high enough quality, someone may nominate you for committer
rights, and then there would be an election where other
committers could vote +1 or -1. Note that the Mylyn project is
broken into several sub-projects and there's a separate
election for committer rights on each one, e.g. someone might
be a committer on Mylyn Tasks but not Mylyn Context.
All contributions must go through Gerrit. Each contribution must
get a +2 from a committer and and a +1 from Hudson (passing
build) before it can be merged.
We have not decided on a date for the next release - it
will happen when we have enough changes to make it worthwhile.
There will be a release in September for Luna SR1 but it may
only be a service release (see
bug
439453).
I already pushed a review to Gerrit but it needs more work
and I won't have time to get back to it in the near future.
Feel free to push a new review to Gerrit.
Cheers,
Sam