How are new volunteers "processed" these days?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 23, 2009, at 04:11, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> After seeing 2 people volunteer their services as MacPorts  
> committers recently, it occurred to me to wonder just how these  
> sorts of ad-hoc, informal "how can I help?" messages are being  
> acted on.  If someone from project management has already quietly  
> followed up to those folks off-list, with encouraging words and the  
> usual array of necessary questions, then I apologize in advance for  
> even implying that the team is anything but totally on top of this  
> important function!

The way we'd like it to be handled is this way:

http://guide.macports.org/#project.membership

Someone who wishes to become a committer sends a message to the  
portmgr email address and demonstrates how they have fulfilled the  
requirements listed there.

Rainer already forwarded Thomas de Grivel's request to the portmgr  
list where we will now discuss the request and then give a response.

The portmgr list is for the managers only and is not open so regular  
users and committers can't see these requests or discussions, so the  
first indication of the existence of a new committer might be the  
addition of their handle to the MacPortsDevelopers wiki page, or  
their first commit coming through on the macports-changes list. The  
history of that page can show who was added when.

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsDevelopers?action=history

Though the comment field is often blank, we ask new committers to add  
themselves to the list, so the first occurrence of a new address in  
the Author column is probably when that person became a committer.