On 07/10/14 at 09:18 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:12:49AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Providing a rough estimate should not be a problem, given it is already > > required to get pre-approval. > > If it's already required to get pre-approval, why ask to send it again?
In order to keep a flexible and lightweight process, sprints are usually approved for a global (not per-person) amount: the sprint coordinator collects estimates for each participant, and then requests approval for the overall budget. But it often happens that a participant only provides a wild guess, or that the coordinator guesses for the participant, using an estimate from a participant from the same country, for example. That's not very important at that point of the process, but at the end of the 3m period, it's useful to get a more accurate view of the cost of sprints (for example, to build an overview of Debian's budget). If the participant provided an accurate-enough estimate, s/he can just re-use that when informing about delayed reimbursement. If not, then at this point, the participant needs to do the work to prepare an estimate. We could switch to a process where all participants providesan accurate amount prior to sprints approval, that serves as the max value for reimbursement, but I don't think that this would be popular. :) Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141007090236.ga20...@xanadu.blop.info
