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.
If there is a need for this, please add it to the guide. I do not see why this would have to be in a reply from PortMgr. This just adds more work that I am not willing to take. It has only been five days. I cannot see the need to hurry on a request for commit access. The person asking for commit access is expected to be already contributing for a while. I think they could just continue the same way even while their request is still pending. I agree that PortMgr needs to handle pull requests in a timely manner and we failed to do so in the past. Now PortMgr agreed to reply within a week (even when it is still not documented in the guide; pull requests welcome). I do not think it is feasible to get any faster than that as our resources are also limited. Rainer
