Anyone watching the bugtracker ?

Hello everyone, I'm wondering what the policy regarding updated ports / new ports and other patches on the bugtracker is. It seems to me that if you don't bother anyone with commit rights about commiting your update/new port it will never be put in the ports tree. There appear to be countless (valid) tickets that nobody even commented on. This seems a bit discouraging for new contributers. I don't want to accuse anyone, I just thought it might be good to bring up this topic. Cheers Jann