Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi, > > Taking the data available on nm.debian.org, I've noticed that in the > last six months only 28 applicants became Debian Developers. This means > roughly every 6.4 days an applicant gets processed by a DAM.
Cool! About 5 new developers per month. That's great! The names I've seen also refer to people quite motivated. > Since the current DAM-queue has 24 applicants this means that a new > applicant entering the DAM queue has to wait on average 5 months until > he/she gets processed. At least they get processed... > This is quite frustrating, since most of the applicants are surely doing > already the normal work every Developer has to do, but are not able to > upload or participate on current votes. The good thing is that the more experienced they are the more the sponsor can trust them and packages get uploaded faster. > So my question is: Is this a known problem and are there any short- and > longterm solutions in progress? Shouldn't we have some more DAMs in > order to process the queue faster? Seeing that the vast majority of the > DAM work is done only by one of the two DAM members, it seems the DAM is > heavily understaffed. Please take a look in the debian-devel (or was it debian-project?) archive. There has been a discussion a while ago. It may answer your questions. Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]