In some projects, nobody gets commit access besides the author, no matter how big the project gets. Alex Miller, for example, is a longtime maintainer of the programming language Clojure, but he doesn’t merge patches. Instead, he triages and uplevels patches from the community, which are then reviewed and merged by a few maintainers with commit access, primarily Rich Hickey—Clojure’s author and lead developer—and Stuart Halloway, another co-maintainer.
