On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:26:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >On 06/10/14 at 20:38 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 12:38:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >On 06/10/14 at 12:07 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >> >> >> Both 2008 and 2011 are more than a year ago, so I don't see any >> >> justification for making this change and would like to see it reverted. >> > >> >There were other occurences of reimbursement requests coming very late >> >recently. It seems that some people wait until the deadline to do >> >such tasks. >> > >> >Also, I don't think that 3 months is unreasonable. My employer applies a >> >two-week soft deadline, and a one month hard deadline for travel >> >reimbursements. >> >> So that's a stupidly tight setup on their part, so what...? What >> actual *problem* are you trying to solve in Debian by arbitrarily >> reducing the limit for us? > >Given that we have no clear process to track reimbursement requests over >time, late reimbursement requests often involve digging through email >archives to understand their status.
OK... How many such requests do we have to deal with? In those situations, it may take a little time. Complain to the people doing it when they're *too* late. But an arbitrary short cut-off is not helpful. >I agree that improving the processes (using e.g. RT) would be better, >but this hasn't happened yet. If you want to join the auditor@ team to >make that happen, you're welcome. But I am already spending far more >time than I would like on financial stuff. It's your call on how much time and effort you want to spend, of course. I don't remember having to spend much time at all on reimbursements as DPL, but you may have many more requests; I'll admit I don't know the numbers. >Also, I really don't see why you feel that it's necessary to have the >possibility to wait for a year before submitting a reimbursement >request. See Phil's response, for one. Personally, for small-ish things I often end up leaving them for a while until they bunch up enough to care about the money. Why is 3 months suddenly too long for that? You're changing something that doesn't need changing, AFAICS - that's why I'm asking you to justify why the change is necessary. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
