[macports-mgr] Question about MacPorts project membership application

[Jan Stary]

On May 13 23:38:35, raimue at macports.org wrote:
> On 2018-05-13 23:03, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > 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.

"Dear valued commiter" is what this is missing.