On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 06:35:04PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > - Edit the current reconfirmation email to sai > > - We can't promise you sponsorship yet > > - Please fill in travel -> debian work so that we can review stuff > > - Reconfirm if you can, please fill in all your data anyway. > > - You'll get another email before you have to reconfirm, saying if > > you have sponsorship or not. > On IRC, Joerg Jaspert, Safir Secerovic, and Steve McIntyre all seemed to share > my belief that we could raise sufficient funds over the upcoming two months > with sufficient effort and that my proposal was reasonable. At least some of > them also thought the proposed reductions in sponsorship guarantees were an > overreaction. On the other side of the issue, Ana Guerrero, Richard Darst, > Pablo Duboue, and Clint Adams were asserting that I was engaging in magical > thinking and unreasonably faithful in things working out, and were highly > concerned about what would happen in a worst-csae scenario. Moray Allan was in > between the two groups in terms of fundraising confidence and emphasized that > it was important to have enough people focused on that task instead of split > between different duties. Apologies if I summarised anyone's view incorrectly.
I'm still working through email backlog from yesterday (and probably won't read irc backlog), so I don't have the full picture. That said, I strongly suspect I would have fallen in the middle with Moray had I been around for the discussion. -edrz _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
