[arthurschreiber]

This is similar to how the Rubinius project has been managed for a long time: After your first pull request gets merged, you'll be added to the repository as a committer.

[chocolateboy]

> This is similar to how the Rubinius project has been managed for a long time

... which in turn was "taken from Audrey Tang's commit policy on Pugs". [1]

[1] http://jacobian.org/writing/commit-bits/#c2548