Andree Leidenfrost <aleidenf@bigpond.net.au> writes: > I thought after three months of inactivity it is appropriate that I > enquire about the progress of my application. Sure, no problem. > The status page says that the last action happened on 2005-09-14 and > that the following is still outstanding: > > * DAM to evaluate application > * DAM creates new account or rejects application Yes, that's correct. > Interestingly enough, when looking at the status pages for my fellow > applicants at the same stage as I, I notice that almost all of them have > the last action date also on 2005-09-14 or shortly after in September. Yes. That's because we added a field to store the requested account name to the database in september. We added this data for all applicants that were already approved by their AM. > I am aware that we are all volunteers and most of us have a life beyond > Debian (certainly true for me ;-) ) but I still feel that three months > is a long time, especially as I am in plentiful company of other > applicants having waited for three months for DAM approval (or rejection > for that matter). No, most of them wait a lot longer than 3 months (up to 8 months...) [...] >>> Please prevent further damage. >> How? > One answer might be to speed up DAM approval... I fear I have to surprise you, but this is not a new idea. The long DAM queue is and was a problem for some time now. To solve this, Joerg Jaspert was appointed as new DAM a year ago and he started to work on the backlog. The queue was shortened a lot since then (now ~25 applicants are waiting for DAMnation, down from >60). He will probably get it empty in the next 6 weeks, at least I hope so. Marc -- BOFH #120: we just switched to FDDI.
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