"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..."