About the recent blogs on planet debian about debian maintainers, I guess I have a couple of comments also.<\/p>\n
About me: I am currently in "waiting for DAM" stage. I have been 10 months getting there and has now waiting for 6 weeks there. Looking at the DAM queue, people have been waiting in more than 6 months.<\/p>\n
What would make the process faster for me ?<\/strong><\/p>\n Getting processed by the DAM – and then the keyring maintainer is the obvious answer. <\/p>\n A thing that would have made my 10 months at AM stage shorter would be if the "reward" for getting the AM stage done wouldn’t have been queueing in maybe to 6 months. It wasn’t like the most motivating factor for answering my AM. The fact that it took 10 months is mostly my own fault.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n So what am I trying to say here? Fix it it at the DAM stage (and maybe at the keyring stage also) and see people becoming DDs faster. Without lowering the barriers – except the barriers for the ability to stand in a queue.<\/p>\n Debian Maintainers seems mostly like a ugly hackaround this. And I kind of find my self being in the target group for some of the use of Debian Maintainers.<\/p>\n – and I am eagerly waiting getting processed in the DAM queue.<\/p>\n