The creation of someone's first patch is a key milestone in the coding contributor lifecycle and there are a number of things we can do to make this a better experience for people and to amplify the signal of first-time patches.
* Have an tool that takes the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719526 email headers from Bugzilla about first patches] and use a Pulse feed to announce that in relevant IRC channels({bug|721240})
* Have an [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721206 email sent out to people who have just had their first patch approved] encouraging them and giving them key information such as the way to get added to credits, how to make sure the patch is landed, how to find other bugs, etc.