Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 05:21 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > >> Apart from that, a few numbers: >> Since May 15th, 2005 up until March 27th 2006, 152 people applied as new >> DDs, but only 60 were approved. Since Jan, 2nd 2006, 36 applied but only >> 15 (9 of them in the first week) were approved. Currently 59 people are >> waiting for AM assignment (with at least one waiting longer than 6 >> months now). There certainly is something wrong with the whole process, >> given these numbers. >> > > Okay, I'll bite: Any company that hires 50% of its applicants is growing > damned fast. Certainly faster than is sustainable. > > Debian has an advantage because we don't pay people, but we do have > other costs associated with membership: Account management, bandwidth > and CPU resources, time for socialization and education. If 50% of the > people applying for NM are getting through, and that's the only > information we have, that's a really good ratio IMO. Do you really > expect 100% of the people applying for NM to be prepared to be DDs? > > If you want to convince anyone otherwise, you'll need to give > specifically examples of someone who should be in: Someone who has made > consistent positive commitments of time and developer effort, but is > still waiting at an early stage like AM, or has been blocked by the DAM > for an unreasonably long time. (And note that a couple months is not an > unreasonably long time.) > > Note that I'm not defending the current process. I'm just saying, "look, > only 50% of applicants get in!" is not a valid criticism of it either. > The problems is that we're not rejecting 50% of our applicants, but they're still in the queue. We have more and more applicants joining the queue, but few becoming developers, and *the rest creating a backlog*. They're still in the application process, not being rejected.
Cheers! Benjamin (Who needs to finish his T&S)
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