New Member process BoF Enrico introduces the BoF, stating it as a long-standing tradition. 15:30 - show of hands who's AM, who's in NM, who'd like to join, who doesn't know what we are talking about → mix of people involved, people formerly involved, people who just went through, … - ask how is it going / how did it go - ask AMs how's the situation with their applicants → everything is fine. need more applicants → The NM process is not an exam. Template questions are publically available on purpose! → Currently the AM report is just a click on a button! (it used to be *way* more involved.....) - ask NMs how's the situation with their AMs 15:45 - describe the current status of NM → FD does not only manage the NM process, but also collab-maint access/guest accounts/emeritus coming back → jmw is doing a lot of the work of FD → description of the tasks: http://www.enricozini.org/2013/debian/fd-recruiting/ - this task list can be split to many small parts - describe my personal motivation/status Wanted: - new FD people → used to be picked among AMs, but that's not the case anymore: any DD can apply provided he's experienced about the project. (please rewrite, en_FR sucks) → Team is slowly losing energy and sanity, new blood needed! - we're quite OK wrt AMs, but feel free to try if you want → that way you don't have to look for docs anymore, just ask your NM! → more seriously, it's a good way to refresh your memory about Debian processes, and get another outlook on them. - FDs also to help with website maintenance - how to hack on the site - include a small task: Hacking on website does not require DD-ship, though you might have to ask a DD for a database dump. 16:00 - QA/brainstorming/proposals/more chats + task on documentation: - NM process changed recently, so *someone* has to update documentation - provide some general guidelines for applicants to know if they are ready to enter the process Further Reading: https://nm.debian.org/ nm.d.o hacking BOF coming soon!!! (at a BoF room near you) Some first tasks: - when advocating a DM as DD, default upload rights to true - in the weekly report, show names of the people who became DD/DM/got guest accounts/* [kibi] - now I need a one-click "send activity-poll" function - mail sent and Cc-ed to the proper archive address - Allow the short bio to be entered as part of personal information, and later even allow any DD to edit/update their own bio. This saves a few steps, and could automatically send the presentation email to d-newmaint at AM approval time. (notify Serafeim Zanikolas) - > (How) can I change e-mail address from which nm.d.o sends my advocacy mails? > : is the @d.o not correct? > @d.o works for me, but it wasn't here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2012/06/msg00030.html > : ouch, that is a mistake