[macports-mgr] Question about MacPorts project membership application

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Sun May 13 21:03:55 UTC 2018


On 13 May 2018 at 21:32, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2018-05-13 18:30, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> The portmgr team might need some time to check the contributions and
>> verify candidate's suitability for commit rights, but maybe they
>> forgot to send you a preliminary confirmation of receiving your
>> request and were simply waiting for the votes to arrive.
>
> We never did anything like that... Why would we expected to confirm the
> reception of every single mail?

Probably not confirming reception of every single email, but I believe
it makes an enormous difference to the user asking for commit rights
if he gets a simple, totally generic email saying something like
"Thank you for contacting us and for volunteering to help us shape our
package manager into an even better product. Please be patient while
we are evaluating your recent contributions and don't hesitate to ping
us again in case you don't get an answer within two weeks." ... as
compared to not even knowing whether the email was sent to the correct
email address and not lost on the way due to spam filters.

Mojca


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