Hello, There has been an impromptu DAM meeting at FOSDEM where we brainstormed some improvements to the current situation, and here is what we came up with: * Application Managers needed There are currently 13 people waiting for an AM to become free. Please mail nm@debian.org to become an AM and help get them into Debian! * 6 months of DD requirement for AMs now just a recommendation We realised we were losing lots of energy by letting new DDs wait 6 months before allowing them to become AM. At the same time we are requiring previous Debian experience before becoming DD, which makes the second waiting period mostly redundant, so we lifted it: now any DD can become Application Manager as soon as they like. (The old rule was not really a hard limit, but in practice, it was rarely softened. Let's make the "soft" variant official!) This now becomes: "you have been a DD for more than 6 months now and you are not yet an AM, what are you waiting for?" * Newmaint svn repo migrated to git, NM templates are now in collab-maint It was time to migrate the NM repo from svn to git. In the process, we split FD-only content[1] from the NM templates, and put the NM templates in collab-maint[2] so that all AMs, all DDs and even many Debian Contributors can push improvements to it. Now maintenance of the templates, like fixing of broken links, improving the language, updating bits that became obsolete and so on, can be done by any DD, and it being git, if an applicant spots something to improve in a template, the AM can go "send me a patch and I'll push it!". Also, AMs can now maintain their own branch with local tweaks, and even push it to the repo. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/nm/nm.git/ [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/nm-templates.git/ * Simplified procedure for collab-maint requests Until now, collab-maint requests[3] required that the applicant applied on the Alioth project page and the advocate mailed a signed request to nm@debian.org. We figured that the first step is not really needed, and the need to cross-reference the two separate mails makes it hard to track progress in the FD mailbox. So we decided to skip the need of applying on Alioth: to get collab-maint access, now just ask a DM or DD, with whom you are going to work, to send a *signed* email to nm@debian.org like so: To: nm@debian.org Cc: USERNAME-guest@users.alioth.debian.org Subject:collab-maint request Please add FIRSTNAME LASTNAME USERNAME-guest to collab-maint. We are going to work together on project PROJECTNAME". [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00006.html * Blurring the line between AM and FD We decided to blur the line between Application Managers and Front Desk. Application Managers are now able to: - read the logs and mailboxes of other application managers - see the full stats overview of all the processes in https://nm.debian.org/public/stats/ In the future we plan to also allow any AM to add log entries on any process (but not change their state). This requires nontrivial refactoring on the side code, though. Cheers, for the DAMs Enrico Jonathan Christoph -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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