On Fri, January 6, 2006 00:09, Sven Mueller wrote: > Well, what is somewhat irritating is that there are a number of AMs, one > of which has to approve my responses (declare that i passed all his > tests), two FD members, one of which has to approve my responses > (declare that what my AM asked of me is sufficient and answered > satisfyingly) and finally the DAM (though there are two, only one is > doing actual work AFAICT) which has to approve my application (declare > that both AM and FD did their work and only passed me on when everything > was satisfactory). Note that there are three levels, each with less > staff, but each currently reviewing my full application material.
I've also observed a similar problem. I think your proposal is a bit overdone because there can be far simpler solutions. What currently happens after you've passed the AM phase is this: - some AM fully checks your report (while writing it) - someone from FD fully checks your report - someone from DAM fully checks your report I think you can see where I'm getting at: this is quite some duplication of work for reasons unclear to me. Appearently, the DAM wants to personally verify that an account he creates is for a truely ready Debian developer. While I personally think that we should select AM's in such a way that they can be trusted in making that judgement, I can see where this comes from. However, why is the FD then duplicating that work? In effect, the FD does the full check, the DAM throws this result away and does the full check again. That makes the FD check totally irrelevant. Marc Brockschmidt indicated on this list that it takes him about 2 hours to make that check. Wasted effort? It seems so for the casual bystander. I can't think of a good reason to do this. Maybe a FD-member can clarify a bit about this. On a similar point, why aren't the FD and DAM checks just merged into one insitution? It was indicated on this list that the reason there's just one DAM is that there's not enough people available within Debian with the right seniority and a connection to NM. It would seem to me that the current FD-members perfectly fit the qualifications for being a DAM. This would remove a whole unneeded extra step in the process and increase the capacity of DAM at the same time. bye, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
