Bug#108765: The Applicant's Checklist web page don't mention the role of the Advocate
Package: www.debian.org
Version: N/A; reported 2001-08-15
Severity: normal
The Applicant's Checklist starting at this URL:
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-checklist
... which purports to have a detailed listing of the process which a
new maintainer goes through, doesn't mention the role of having a
Debian Developer to act as an advocate to "verify the application".
The Checklist for Application Managers also doesn't mention the need
for an Advocate. In particular both of these documents don't really
talk about how the Application Manager and the Advocate are supposed
to interact.
However, looking at status of current applicants, it seems pretty
clear that you don't go anywhere fast without having an Advocate.
I assume what happened is that the process got changed to require an
Advocate, instead of having the Application Manager do the
verification, but some of the web pages never got updated.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux think 2.4.7ext3 #25 Tue Aug 14 06:35:41 EDT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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