* David Weinehall (tao@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:08:25AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > If an AM is doing nothing more than using the NM templates and > > processing the applicant's answers, then that AM is not doing a good > > job. An AM should do a thorough background check of the applicant, > > including mailing list activity, BTS usage (both bug response time and > > resolve time), package upload frequency, and relationships with > > developers (particularly sponsors). > > > > There's no reason any of these checks should be the DAM's > > responsibility. And people wonder why the NM queue tends to be > > processed so slowly... > > My point exactly. I did dabble a little with AM work (however I'm > ashamed to say I became inactive, to the detriment of the two NM's I > processed, who had to wait far longer than necessary), and I tried to > make sure I knew more about the applicants than what the > templates told me to ask for. For instance I checked out mailing list > activity and BTS usage (I wasn't as thorough as you suggest, so no > checking of response and resolve time.) I do check response and resolve times and read through all of the BTS logs for all of my applicants. That's pretty much orthogonal to a background check though, which I admit I don't really do beyond what I might pick up in BTS reports or if I happened to see something involving my NM elsewhere. I don't recall a detailed background check being part of what's expected of me though as an AM. I suppose I'll go double check and talk with tbm about it, but honestly I expect that even if I do such a check the DAM will end up duplicating alot of that (with good reason, imv). There are also things which the DAM hears about that AMs don't, and I doubt that'll change because of where they come from.. > I also tried to ask questions that do not really have any right or > wrong answer, just to try to get a feeling of how well they > communicated. However, since I didn't fulfill my duties as an AM, > I'm probably no good raw model for others... Probably not. Stephen
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