Re: [DISCUSSION] Growing the Git community

> Another discouraging thing when I was just starting out was sending a
> out a patch and just getting radio silence (especially the first one, I
> wasn't sure if it even sent out properly!). Perhaps in the main list, we
> could get people to tag with [FIRST PATCH] or something when sending in
> their first patch.
> 
> If the patch is not desired, then we should explain why it wasn't
> desired instead of just leaving them hanging. I know Junio is too busy
> to say "hey, I'm picking this patch up" to every single patchset, but if
> a patch is desired, perhaps the rest of us could pick up the slack and
> say, "hey, your patchset was picked up by Junio in his gitster repo on
> this branch".
>