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Re: [Debian account] I request your attention



On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:32:17PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The applicant's given evidence that an AM thinks is acceptable for
> > inclusion into Debian. The quality of AM's varies, I'm not sure by
> > how much. Some are incredibly good; at least in the past some haven't
> > been. The DAM's there to judge whether the AM's right, and the applicant's
> > evidence suffices for proof, or not. 

> > AIUI, you don't even have to be a
> > developer yourself to be an AM.

This isn't true, for reference.

> We are talking about the case where the AM has recommended that the
> applicant gets an account in december last year.  It's in my personal
> opinion extremely unfair that the applicant gets no answer from the DAM
> while other applicants get their accounts within a few days after their AM
> recommended them. You can always discuss the quality of the AMs and
> whether an applicant should really become a developer but it's a minimum
> amount of fairness I expect for someone who has already dedicated parts of
> his spare time for Debian that he gets told that he was rejected and why
> he was rejected instead of silently ignoring him.

That's nice. What're you actually doing to make sure that's the case?

Cheers,
aj

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