Debian Account Manager (DAM) resources

Role description

The Debian Account Managers are the people ultimately responsible for Debian accounts.

They are helped in this task by the Front Desk team, which runs the New Maintainer process.

Interesting mails

rejections and reprocessing etc.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint-discuss/2001/04/msg00041.html
Debian MIA check: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/05/msg00006.html
Rejections redux: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2003/10/msg00001.html
Bits from the DAMs (NM rules, Emeritus, MIA handling): http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg00003.html
Bits from the DPL: FTP-master & DAM delegations: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00007.html
New addition to the DAM team: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00015.html
Developer Status: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00005.html
Legal Names: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/07/msg00044.html
Account name change policy: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/09/msg00032.html
[DSA] handling of guest accounts on debian.org machines: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/09/msg00026.html
Keyring-maint demands stronger keys: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg00003.html

Account Name Policy

account names must consist entirely of lower-case letters and digits, must contain at least one letter, and should start with a letter. There is a natural exception for ham radio callsigns starting with a digit.
there is no upper limit on the length, but we will reject very long names
account names should be at least three letters long
we reserve the right to reject names if they are overly generic, or are similar to role names in the project
"should" means that you might be able to convince us otherwise if you have good reasons

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