On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:37 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Also FrontDesk could skip reading the reports. Or only read them from > new AMs, to give them tips when they made mistakes. > (And of course be there if they have questions, lala). > > > 1.2.3 Drop Front Desk/merge with DAM > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The opinion that the FD check of reports is not needed has been > > presented more than once. Assuming this would be a real possibility, it > > would leave the problems not related to the DAM/FD unfixed. > > As if it is only reading reports what Frontdesk is doing. > No, dropping Frontdesk would be bad. FD is doing a lot of work syncing > the AMs with the NMs, that should not be kicked to others. People saying > FD could be dropped just dont know the process. Or they didn't make themselves not clear enough :) What I mean when I've suggested such a thing, I mean that the function of FD where it checks all reports before they get to the DAM could be merged. Seems a bit like what you write above. You're right that the other functions are also important. The front desk should be what it name implies: a point of contact about the process for everyone; not an additional check required on every application. IMHO. > For the rest - splitting the rights is a problematic task. Where do you > define who gets what rights? Right now it is: Do actual work (mostly > packaging, some few doc-people) for Debian, do the whole NM, be a > full-featured DD. If you want to change that where to draw the line? Who > gets that wanted @debian.org? Who can vote? Etc. I'm not really sure that it is such a problematic issue. What I read in Marc's text, and a setup I'd appreciate, is that essentially the answer to the question you pose stays the same: you get those rights when you pass the whole process. What does change is when and what you can upload. There's a formalisation of the current sponsoring process where people can acquire limited uploading rights. And it should be just that: uploading rights. Or committing-into-documentation rights. So the current definition of DD with voting, e-mail does not change; there's only a new category added. I'm quite sure that the line between those can be clear. Thijs
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