Re: NM status: separate DAM approval and account creation?

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:54:08AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:25:05AM -0800, ivan-debian-newmaint@420.am wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:12:34PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > * <tbm@cyrius.com> [2005-03-28 13:56]:
> > > > > Since the DAM approval and actual account creation steps are now
> > > > > being done by different people, do you think it would be useful to
> > > > > create a new category called "Applicants waiting for account
> > > > > creation" and to have people get moved there once they get DAM
> > > > > approval?  This would no doubt help people who are checking
> > > > > regularly to see where they are in the queue.
> > > > 
> > > > I can change the script to do this if the DAMs ask me to.
> > > 
> > > Joerg just told me that it's okay with him so I've done this now.
> > 
> > Umm, so our applicants are now held up waiting on the same previous
> > inactive DAM as before, and "creation" is newspeak for "approval"?
> 
> He's not inactive.  There have been some 20 or so new accounts made in the
> past couple of months.  I imagine James is probably kind of busy at work at
> the moment.  And no, creation and approval are separate steps, they've just
> been merged into one list in the past because the same person has
> historically done both jobs.  Now we have one person reviewing all AM
> reports for completeness and correctness, and another person doing all of
> the boring housekeeping drek to actually insert the approved applicants into
> the Debian infrastructure.

The front desk already reviews every report for completeness and
correctness when they are submitted.  No report should be getting to the
DAM that isn't ready for approval.

Joerg, in his current position, is completely redundant and is no
different from a front desk member.  I can only assume that he will get
full account creation rights in the near future, once he's become
comfortable with the role.  Otherwise, I don't see any reason as to why
he's been promoted to "DAM" if he has no power to manage accounts.

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