Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-17 16:02]: > Philipp Kern wrote: > >I thought the stats on the page were broken? > Oh, still? Bletch. I'll go fix it oh, wait, I can't. They aren't broken. They do exactly what the explanation says they do, but some people have argued that the

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Philipp Kern wrote: >I thought the stats on the page were broken? Oh, still? Bletch. I'll go fix it oh, wait, I can't. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fasc

Re: [debian-newmaint] fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-11-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allberry wrote: >And some things, >like QA NMUs, aren't really great things to do as an NM, I think. I have actually done one now (glademm). Not exactly an efficient process, and I've been deterred from doing a lot of other 'straightforward' NMUs by that. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Troy Heber
On 11/17/05 21:23, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Anyway about testimonials about NMs: I interpreted this as the job > of the AM. There is also such a template in the CVS repository. Am > I wrong about that? Isn't this the job of the Advocate. You need a DD to recommend you in the first place. Do we r

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Nov 17, 2005, at 19:59, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Now let's look at the stats for the "queues": Awaiting AM assignment: median days 131, max days 706 Awaiting FD approval: median days 20, max days 77 Awaiting DAM approval: median days 262, max days 303 I thought the stats on the page were brok

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>It's not a FIFO queue, it's up to the DAM to decide in what order he >>processes the applicants. > And is this reasonable? :-P I would say "no". What good reason > could the DAM have for processing applicants in a non-FIF

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It's not a FIFO queue, it's up to the DAM to decide in what order he >processes the applicants. And is this reasonable? :-P I would say "no". What good reason could the DAM have for processing applicants in a non-FIFO order, apart from rare special cases? Well, maybe s

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:59:45AM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > > I don't know if it's the case here, but instead of waiting one better > > makes sure one will get accepted eventually by doing lots of great work > > and asking a lot of DDs things to get your work done (like sponsoring) > > so the

Re: Queue processing

2005-11-17 Thread Micah Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luk Claes wrote: > Troy Heber wrote: > >>>I understand why there are differences in AM assignment and the FD >>>queue. However, the process is pretty broken if someone can be waiting >>>in the DAM queue, this mean having completed everything ask of