People should have a track record of working on debian

diff --git a/input/doc/guest-account.creole b/input/doc/guest-account.creole
index 896c448..b9010d8 100644 (file)
--- a/input/doc/guest-account.creole
+++ b/input/doc/guest-account.creole
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 = Guest Access to porter machines =
 
+People who are not DDs but are working on software in Debian are able to obtain
+access to porter machines for short term (1-2 months) in order to resolve port
+issues and the like.
+
 == non-DMs ==
 
-People who are not DDs, DMs or NMs but are working on software in Debian are
-able to obtain access to porter machines for short term (1-2 months) in
-order to resolve port issues and the like.  The procedure for this is that
-the guest applicant should supply several details (listed below) to a DD,
+People who are not yet DMs or NMs will need to find a DD who is willing
+to sponsor their request.  People requesting access should already have
+a track record of working on Debian for some time.
+
+The guest applicant should supply several details (listed below) to this DD,
 and the DD will sign this (clear signed, not PGP mime) and open a ticket
 in RT (mail to admin@rt.d.o, put 'Debian RT' somewhere in the subject -
 see <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/rt.debian.org">wiki.d.o</a> for more info).
@@ -34,7 +39,7 @@ DMs (i.e. people who have their key in the debian-maintainers keyring) or
 people already in the NM process may route their request through the
 <a href="mailto:new-maintainer@debian.org">NM-frontdesk</a>.
 
-The following information shall be provided to frontdesk:
+The following information should be provided to frontdesk:
 
 * First/Middle/Last-name
 * Preferred username
@@ -48,3 +53,6 @@ A member of frontdesk will verify the information for correctness, and create a
 ticket in RT (signed by the frontdesk member) asking DSA to add the new account
 to LDAP.
 
+
+
+The final decision about account creation remains with DSA.