On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:45:29PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Some of them are on hold, no doubt, because the DAM feels that their > "contributions" would be too dangerous. (Obviously the list is a bit > long, and I would have trouble believing that they each of them have > questionable technical expertise or attitudes, but that'd be something > you might want to contact the DAM about.)
I don't need to contact the DAM. That's not my problem, but NM say he is unreachable or simply not replying mails from them. DAM team work load is high? What is in this chain that do not let people to join Debian? There are missing informations here and there that would explain why NM are waiting so long? > So perhaps "what are we doing for these people?" isn't the right question. > Perhaps "why does the DAM feel that they shouldn't be given Debian accounts > yet?" is better. I'm not sure about that: looking at the statistics it seems tat only 2 are kept on old by DAM, and i did not see any comment: if i could speculate i would say that DAM is not acting (he is not replying mails), but i don't know why. I would olso resize the issue around the security problem regarding the introduction o new people. A guy willing to introduce a security hole or any other problem in our distribution, can easily pass all the step looking one of the best person in the world, and then ... That's not so difficult, i may have already done it. I mean: it's a good thing to test the people in as many way as possible, but i fail to understand why one would be blocked at the account creation time without any notice. If the problem is the security, then we should close any further application, or better we should remove any account which cannot be trusted at 100% (i can be removed too, i know :P), and then close any application. Perheps the problem in the chain is that AM are not trusted so much in their work, that's why we need an extra examination by DAM: that would be the bottle neck. Should it be so, why dont we test AM better (do we test them)? ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe ``Good guy''. | something in common: they local LANG="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | don't depend on the language.
