I'm still in the queue, but... The tracking could be improved. I filled out an application a while ago so all I could fill in whas name and email. No AM has been assigned to me yet, though Martin did contact me and we went through the checklist.
I get the impression that I'm just a name and email in some database I can't see. I await some busy individual to a assign me to a busy AM who will then ask me questions. It would be nice if the potential maintainer could access a live database record and add/update info like GPG keys, current releated projects etc. I think the database _should_ track folks that have not yet completed everything in the check list. As long as they can come back and fill things in, there is a gain from this. Further info can be gleaned by how often the potential maintainer updates the record. Not allowing a potential maintainer to sign up just because something on the list is missing merely means there is no way of knowing he intends to sign up. There is no need to process the application until the items are completed, but the data is there so progress can be discovered more easily. trivial note, I'd recommend that a public key server and the GPG key id be in the database, not the actual GPG key. Then the AM can just recv-keys to get a local copy. Of course this should still be verified by face to face contact. Craig Small wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:13:48PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:28:31PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:58:27AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > > > > This applicant has checked the boxes which say that they have: > > > > - a GPG key > > > > > > We could also provide a field to cut & paste the GPG key into. > > > > Even better. > > This seems initally a good idea, but when you think about the paths > ways an AM can go through it doesn't seem as a good idea. Also having > a GPG key mailed to you is a lot easier to manage ( ^K here) rather than > the messy mucking aronud of cut and pasting and line breaks etc. > > - Craig -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! <g> All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.
