How are new volunteers "processed" these days?

[Eric Hall]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 06:31:19PM +0200, Rainer M?ller wrote:
> 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?
> 

	I think that'd be great - it provides visibility of the
new committers and indications to others that the project gets
and accepts new blood.


		-eric