One of the things about growing community is to be welcoming and responsiveness so that contributors are stimulated to continue and grow their level of participation.
In a community that is trying to bootstrap itself, I believe that all committers and PPMC members should watch for patches and review/apply them in a timely fashion. Also, I believe that contributors should be encouraged to develop their contributions in incremental and frequent patches to help streamline the review process and make sure the community is in agrement with the design choices. Anyway, just my 0.2c -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
