Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thursday 20 March 2008 07:33, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > When you register to NM process, you're asked to check boxes if you > agree to Social Contract etc. But those checks aren't really enough. > What you have is to say (somewhere on a signed mail) that you agree. > Currently only the AM recei

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer, 2008-03-19 at 16:45 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It seems logical that everybody who is AM approved has successfully > passed the various checks. Yes, but, as we say here: « cela va sans dire, mais ça va encore mieux en le disant » (“it goes without saying, but it goes better saying it

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > (For example, "answered all my questions about the social contract, > DFSG, BTS, etc. in a good way" leaps out at me. Not wrong, as such, > but that's an unusual way to put it - has any applicant ever been > described as answering them "in a bad way"?) Either

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Are you (or any other candidates) arguing for an NM-portfolio, a > > document that summarises the applicant in a way that most developers > > could understand why the applicant was given an account, if they saw > >

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > > Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's > > > great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step > > > independent double-checking i

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-19 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's > > great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step > > independent double-checking in that task. > > Honestly I don't know. But i

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's > great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step > independent double-checking in that task. Honestly I don't know. But if it's not, then it gives us at least a precise idea o

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 17/03/2008, MJ Ray wrote: > Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's > great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step > independent double-checking in that task. If not so, is that sooo long that there are only a couple of runs each *

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. [...] > > I must admit that I've read some "Getting Things Done" related literature > and that this organization method usually suggests to do small tasks on

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > GTD is quite popular and has been discussed on planet Debian several times > together with the "Inbox Zero" principle... that's why I said "well-known". > But you're right that I should have given more references. Note that the wh

Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] It's well known that small > > task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done "on the > > fly" instead of accumulating them. [...] > > Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided

Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency

2008-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] It's well known that small > task (when they take less than 5 minutes) are usually best done "on the > fly" instead of accumulating them. [...] Where is this well known? I thought opinion was divided. See Ganging your mosquito tasks http://www.4