On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:26:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 23/06/09 at 17:10 +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:45:10PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > I've been advocating people "too early" (i.e, I've advocated people so > > > that they could start NM, while in the meantime, I wouldn't have > > > advocated them for DM). The reason is that the "unassigned applicants" > > > list is huge, so, when considering whether you should advocate someone > > > or not, you basically have to wonder whether the person will behave well > > > when he gets an AM in 6 months. > > > > > > > I am surprised by this, it is you who set example in a blog post [1] that > > when you are ready, at least the AM step is quick. > > Chris Lamb benefited from a lot of factors. He waiting a long time > before applying, so he couldn't have been more ready to be a DD. He was > assigned an AM after only a month of waiting, his AM was very active > at the time and prioritized his NM process quite high, so he > could do all the AM part in 1.5 month. So it only took him 2.5 month to > go from applying to being AM-approved. Then he waited almost 2 months > for FD approval, and another month for DAM approval. Which means: > - time spending answering questions: 1.5 months > - time spent waiting at various steps: 4.5 months >
Yeah, clearly: good and motivated NM -> motivates AM -> quick process. Profit! That was my point :-) The other waiting times in NM are the next steps to solve. But solving the "advocate too early" problem will make a significant first improvement. FYI, since we are with the lamby process, it would have been 3 months instead of 4 and half if his first advocate would have had a bit more of time for writing his advocate email (I do understand him, lamby is so active, the mail was not short). Lamby was waiting for almost 6 weeks that is the time you are kicked out of NM if you do not have an advocate. Then I acted as "backup" advocate because lamby was clearly ready. > Also, the fact that if you are ready, the AM step is quick, doesn't mean > that if you wait before starting the process, you become a DD earlier ;) You can wait 2 years to apply for DD maintaining 2 packages and you can wait 6 months working 20 hours / week in Debian while working whithin 3 team. Yes, time does not have nothing to do with this, *activity* does. Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
