Re: DAM and NEW queues processing
Matthew Johnson <mjj29@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu Jun 25 13:23, Mark Brown wrote:
>> I stopped being an AM largely as a result of the introduction of the
>> templated questions. I felt that all I was doing was shooting
>> enormous reams of paperwork at applicants which I didn't really felt
>> helped with anything. Dumping these enormous reams of questions on
>> the applicants didn't feel like it was giving any insight into their
>> cluefulness,
> I didn't think that using the templates was required for AMs, merely a
> useful tool. I think AMs should be able to check to their satisfaction
> in other ways as appropriate, as long as it produces a similar result
> (you are happy that the candidate _does_ know all those things and
> will probably get them right in practice).
For example, my AM mostly did not use templates for my application.
However, doing it that way is quite a bit more work for the AM.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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