Asho Yeh wrote: > I read the steps of Applicant's Checklist. Something confused me about > the first two. > > In the Initial Contact step two:The applicant's identity needs to be > verified. The applicant needs to prepare the GPG key to be signed by a > Developer or sponsor? And then, the Identification routine mentions > that the way to prepare a GPG key and providing. Is the > routine:Identification the same as the Initial Contact step two?
Yes, the instructions in Step 2: Identity Verification are the same as the "verification" mentioned in Step 1: Initial Contact. You need to get your key signed *before* the initial contact; it will be verified by your Application Manager *after* the initial contact (this is why it is "Step 2", although this is not very clear from the NM Checklist pages). I'm sure that debian-newmaint would welcome a patch to make these pages less confusing...
