On May 13 23:38:35, [email protected] 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.
