Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I mean the preliminary schedule of which general topics are hoped to > > be on which days, so part-time visitors can prioritise [...] > > I think it's pretty hard to expect something really reliable about > this. To my experience, there has never been topic grouping in the > schedule and, given the way Debconf sets itself up, I'd bet it will > not happen.
Thanks for the reply, but note I didn't ask for "something really reliable", but for preliminary. The lack of topic grouping is a bug in debconf set-up, isn't it? > It's understandable that it may be disappointing for part-time > visitors as you have no idea of the better schedule you should follow > (IIRC, you had this problem in EDI). OTOH, when coming from Europe, do > you really expect to stay only 3 or 4 days? Yes, I'd really much prefer that. If I travel from Europe, I am unlikely to be alone (yay health) and others who would probably be with me don't care about debconf AFAIK. Also, as a non-geek, I find debconf attendees in general a stressful and tiring group to interact with, so I burn out after a few days of that effort. Finally, while debian *use* is mostly work for me, debian *development* is mostly a hobby. How many people will spend over a solid week away for their hobby each year? Does debconf not want mainstream developers? (I'm not unusual in hobby-developing: fewer than 1 in 8 free software users in general are doing it to make money, according to surveys like Ghosh, 2004; by nearly all estimates I've seen, less than 50% of developers earn money from it at all (Political Motives of Developers for Collaboration on GNU/Linux, Tobias Escher, 2004-07).) > Debconf is, more or less by definition, something that you really > benefit from when you participate to the entire event, really. It's a shame if there's no willingness to make debconf more easily accessible to a wider range of developers. It seems likely to lead to forking as we grow, with all the drawbacks that involves. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
