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Update managing-committers.md clarified the section about committer access to repos
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After that, the PMC takes over and provides the committer's infrastructure needs, in particular, write access to the **project's source repository**.
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To grant or deny access to directories in SVN, the PMC chair needs to update the appropriate **group entry** in LDAP:
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To grant access to directories in SVN or Git, the PMC chair needs to update the appropriate **group entry** in LDAP:
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Go to the <a href="https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committee/" target="_blank">Whimsy roster tool</a>, select the appropriate committee, and either double click on the person or the plus sign to modify or add a person.
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If the SVN access group is not defined as an LDAP group (e.g. it is an Incubator podling) then edit the appropriate entry in the <a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/subversion/authorization/asf-authorization-template" target="_blank">asf-authorization-template file</a> and commit the change.
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**Note** it is possible to remove a committer's access to repositories in an urgent situation, such as their account being taken over by a hacker. However, the PMC chair should not take this action for situations such as a committer's extended inactivity. In 2026, the ASF Security team is working on proposals that may clarify the conditions under which a committer's rights to commit code can be suspended or removed.

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