Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 23/06/09 at 12:55 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>>> On 23/06/09 at 12:06 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>>>> No way. Most reports show that a lot of NMs don't know about a lot of >>>>> things asked during the NM process. This is true even for those who >>>>> are DM already. >>>> Is that really problem? We need people who take the right decisions >>>> (and >>>> that includes asking questions when they don't know or are not sure >>>> about something), not people who can repeat all our documentation from >>>> memory. >>> 80% or more of the questions are questions about daily tasks, so yes, >>> you're >>> supposed to know that from brain. Or you should at least have heard >>> something >>> about it, which is another things the NM process is for: educate people. >> >> The fact that NM is about educating people is a problem: NM >> should be about checking that it's OK to grant the DD status to an >> already-educated applicant. That way, the process would be much shorter, >> it would be easier to find people willing to help with it (AM, FD, DAM), >> and applicants wouldn't see it as something so useless and boring. > > Ev. we could set up some infrastructure, to let other DD to do some jobs. > > As sponsoree I look much more about packages than procedures, but > if we (sponsoree) have some infrastructure, we can check some extra > tasks (and maybe with a note, just to increment quality of "attempts"). > I think this will not require much more time. > > So at the end the FD will control what was checked by other DDs > (and with few checks to confirm that DDs did a good job) and doing > the rest of checks. > > This will surely increment quality of sponsored package, but probably > remove some work of AM, FD, DAM.
Added to http://wiki.debian.org/FrontDesk/NewWebsite Good idea, not sure what the best way to implement it is, though. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
