General-Application: nuance early involvement

Author: chriscool

General-Application-Information.md

@@ -346,16 +346,24 @@ The more we can see that you invest in learning and participating in
 Git's development, the more we can be confident that you are motivated
 and will likely stay in the community.
 
-This doesn't necessarily mean that you have no chance at all of
-getting accepted if you get involved quite late. It depends on how
-other applicants are doing and how many available mentors we have or
-can find. But anyway you start with a significant handicap compared to
-other applicants who got involved early.
+That said sending your application more than one month before the
+application deadline is not a good idea either, because discussions or
+on going work might happen that make us change the project ideas a bit
+in the meantime, and it would be a waste of effort for you and us to
+aim at a moving target. The last month should be enough to discuss
+your application. Before that, please work on other things.
+
+The fact that we like applicants getting involved early doesn't
+necessarily mean that you have no chance at all of getting accepted if
+you get involved quite late. It depends on how other applicants are
+doing and how many available mentors we have or can find. But anyway
+you start with a significant handicap compared to other applicants who
+got involved early.
 
 It might therefore be a good idea to find a project idea that is not
 yet being pursued by an applicant who started getting involved much
-earlier than you. This means that you might have to find a project
-idea that we haven't proposed in our idea list.
+earlier than you. If there aren't, then finding a project idea that we
+haven't proposed in our idea list might give you a chance.
 
 The good side of this is that this project idea along with your
 enthusiasm for it and the skills you show might encourage Git