How are new volunteers "processed" these days?

[S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)]

2009/5/23 Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
>
> 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.
>
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ryan,
i already mailed to portmgr 2 times for commit permission. but never
got any reply from them. i think if you (portmgr) deny my request, i
expect a reply from you with details.

thanks


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