People behind Debian: Enrico Zini, member of the New Maintainer Frontdesk

“One of the first things I noticed when I become a Front Desk
member is that there was a tendency to advocate people too early,
thinking “by the time they’ll get an AM, they’ll know enough”.

Unfortunately, this didn’t always work, and once the real NM
process started it would turn into a very long and demotivating
experience both for the applicant and for the AM. So we tried
raising the bar on advocacies, and that seems to have helped a lot.
If people join NM when they are ready, it means that NM is quick
and painless both for them and their AMs, who are therefore able to
process more applicants.

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