On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:24:21PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > So, my humble suggestion is that if an NM is fast-tracked, it should > be noted in the «Notes» field on the applicants page. Just adding > «Fast-tracked due to debian-installer» or «Fast-tracked due to > $some_other_reason» would be enough.
That would be, indeed, A Really Good Thing(TM). Same thing for "being held back without any obvious reason to outside observers". I've been told off-list that Eray is being held back because of "special circumstances" surrounding his case. Allow me to be very straighforward here: I don't care about _Eray_ the person, but I care about the fact that when I go to http://nm.debian.org/ and look at his application I see: http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=erayo%40cs.bilkent.edu.tr Received application 2000-08-25 Advocate sunset Advocate Check Passed on 2000-08-25 Application Manager Assigned guillaum assigned on 2000-10-30 ID Check Passed on 2000-11-03 Philosophy and Procedures Check Passed on 2000-11-26 Tasks and Skills Check Passed on 2000-12-17 Application Manager recomends to DAM Approved on 2000-12-17 DAM Phone Contact Not Required DAM Approval -- Account Created No Application Manager Comments Debian Account Manager Comments Have asked applicant to get 5 sponsors. According to that information, he's been sitting at the DAM stage for _2 years_ and at some point the DAM asked him to get five sponsors for his application. The way I read that is that the DAM doesn't think it's appropiate to approve the application, but doesn't have any particular reason to reject it and has asked five developers to pitch in and say "yes, I think it should be approved". That's fine for two months. But two years? Someone will argue this is Eray's fault. Be my guest ... We send nagmail for people at the advocate stage. But we don't seem to have checks for people at the AM or DAM stages ("applicant has been waiting for two weeks but hasn't been yet accepted by AM", "applicant has been at the NM stage longer than three months and hasn't been put on hold", "applicant has been waiting for DAM approval for more than six months", ...) -- Marcelo
