How are new volunteers "processed" these days?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-05-23 11:11, 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!

Yes, we followed up the requests for commit rights on the portmgr list.

If it makes the process more transparent, should we announce new
committers on macports-dev as an introduction to the community?

Rainer