Debian Project is a volunteer effort, and needs more skilled manpower at many human knowledge areas.

One of the bottlenecks is the Debian Accout Management (DAM), and Sam Hocevar delegated
some important tasks to more people, distributing future workload. While the batch of new DD accounts were created, he issued a Debian Project Leader (DPL) announcement just before transferring position to the new elected DPL, Steve McIntyre.

This decision is a measure to quickly improve its New Maintainer process.

The added DAM and FTP Master immediately set to work and announced a number of changes to the archive software as well as outlining some more TODO items, adding a call for help for those tasks that do not require special privileges.

Last year, the Debian Maintainer status was approved as another decision to improve process, granting partial rights of a full DD.

All Applicants' progress can be tracked at every phase, by anyone.

Ongoing discussions are being held at debian-project mailing list to find a better New Maintainer process management with a more scalable and permanent solution.

Debian Project has a long history of debating its own key solutions, and the emerging ones, having the colective wisdom of many,
had been proven under real situations.

Update Monday the 28th of April 2008:

Steve McIntyre, the new elected DPL, announced one more DAM to the team, distributing workload.

About the Debian Project

Debian GNU / Linux is one of the free libre operating systems (GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, GNU/NetBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD), running 18733+ officially maintained packages on 15 hardware platforms, from cell phones and network devices to mainframes and supercomputers, developed by more than two thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via
the internet on the Debian Project.

Debian's dedication to Free Libre Open Source Software, its constitutional non-profit nature, its open and meritocratic development model, organization and social governance make it a first among free libre operating system distributions.

The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract and the Debian Constitution, and its commitment to provide the best operating systems attainable, following a strict quality policy, working with an established QA Team and helpful users reporting bugs, suggestions, exchanging ideas, and registering experiences.

You can help Debian Project without joining it and even not being a programmer, or being a development and or service
partner company or institution at the Debian Partner Program, or simply making various donations to the Debian Project.

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