Re: Q: Small tasks best on the fly? was: Q: All: Account creation latency
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote:
> > > Is creating accounts really now a sub-two-minute task? If so, that's
> > > great, but I believed there was still often a lot of multi-step
> > > independent double-checking in that task.
> >
> > Honestly I don't know. But if it's not, then it gives us at least
> > a precise idea of technical improvement: that process must be quick and
> > the people in charge of steps before account creation should be able to
> > prepare a document ready to be used by a tool that creates the account.
> > The review of that document should be enough and the other checks should
> > be automated by the tool.
>
> Are you (or any other candidates) arguing for an NM-portfolio, a
> document that summarises the applicant in a way that most developers
> could understand why the applicant was given an account, if they saw
> that document?
We already have that with the short NM report sent to -newmaint.
I was mainly thinking of a structured document where all info
that need to be integrated in the LDAP are available (Name, Login,
Alternate email, Keyid, ...) so that a script can take that as input
and do all the job.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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