Apache Arrow Project Governance

The Arrow project is a part of the Apache Software Foundation and follows its project management guidelines, which promote community-led consensus decisionmaking, independent of commercial influence.

Project Management Committee (PMC)

The PMC governs the project. Members vote on important decisions, including releases and inviting committers to join the PMC.

Committers

Contributors who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the project, not only authoring code but also reviewing others’ patches and exercising good judgment, may be invited by the PMC to become committers. Committers are authorized to merge code patches to the project and serve as non-voting project maintainers.