On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:41:37AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:36:47AM -0300, Blu Corater wrote: > > I have considered many times to apply to become part of the proyect, but > > nowdays I more often regret not having done it back then, mainly because > > with the current states of things I find quite ridiculous to be evaluated > > for more than three years to be accepted. > > I find this to be a ridiculous exaggeration. The average time from AM > assignment to account creation is much *less* than three years among those > applicants who have become Debian Developers over the past six months; and > the time spent on NM varies with the preparedness of the candidate. It also > varies according to when the applicant entered the queue, as applicants are > completing the process faster now than they were last year before the DAM > backlog was cleared. The average, though, seems to be something less than 1 > year.
I stand corrected then. > The current bottleneck in the NM process is that the rate at which new > applicants apply exceeds the rate at which our existing application managers > can accept applicants. Unless you're arguing that Debian should not attempt > to assess incoming applicants *at all*, I don't see how you can claim that > this is caused by people trying to make Debian too elitist. My perception of Debian becoming elitist comes from other things too, apart from the NM issue. I could be wrong though. But I am getting now that the problem of the NM process is is more organizational than any other thing. [...] > > and, not that I want to, but it would be easier for me to enter the secret > > service of my country than to enter Debian. > > I'm trying really hard to understand that as a criticism, and it's just not > working... I just can't bring myself to think that military and > intelligence organizations have appropriate standards that can be fairly > compared to Debian. :) Maybe a not so happy comparison. Intelligence organizations tend to investigate and test their candidates very throughoutly, which leads to a high rate of rejection and long waits, but no so long as Debian make wait some of their applicants. I realize now that the most part of the waiting period in Debian is not due an overjelous evaluation but due a lack of manpower to process the applications. Thanks for the clarification. -- Blu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
