[Debconf-team] Sponsorship-allocation meeting
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 23:57 -0800, Patty Langasek wrote:
> Now, to me, the question is who is being replaced, why, and on whose
> authority. Was there a vote? Consensus? Were there issues brewing with the
> team already chosen? I'm pretty uncomfortable with the idea that these teams
> are being made and broken on whims...
While it will be obvious to anyone who's been following for a while that
I don't always agree with Joerg (Ganneff), I don't actually think that
in this instance he/others have done anything wrong.
Those who finally voted in the sponsorship-allocation meeting were:
Anthony Towns, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel, Gunnar Wolf, Joerg Jaspert,
Junichi Uekawa, Marcela Tiznado, Margarita Manterola, Martin Würtele,
Moray Allan, Neil McGovern, Steve McIntyre.
Meeting time/arrangements: The meeting was at 22 UTC on Saturday 17
February, as had been finally agreed on Monday 12th after a discussion
starting on 1 February; the time/day was chosen to allow all those
involved, including aj, to make the meeting time (it was late at night
for some, but they could catch up sleep on Sunday). I personally
abandoned my previous plans for the weekend so that I would be able to
make the meeting.
Meeting purpose: The purpose of the (first) meeting was to vote on who
deserved sponsorship, supposing that we had enough to give money to
everyone who needed it. (A second meeting, possibly with fewer people,
will be held to make a final prioritised list out of the votes from the
first meeting.)
People attending: As mentioned in a little discussion on the team list
before, the intention was to get votes from a balanced mix of Debian
people. As also mentioned, this was originally supposed to include
Holger and Amaya. The day before the meeting, Holger apologised that he
and Amaya might not be able to make the meeting time they had previously
agreed on, as they would be in France without a network connection.
Amaya added they would try to find a network connection to use. Due to
the uncertainly, Ganneff asked Felipe and Marcela to be ready to vote in
their place, so that the number/range of opinions at the meeting would
not fall if they missed it. At 20 UTC Holger called Ganneff to say he
and Amaya wouldn't make it, and the meeting later went ahead at the
scheduled time, with Felipe and Marcela completing the panel of voters.
Writing a proper response, explaining properly the full discussion from
before/during the meeting by email and on IRC, would take a long time,
which I don't have (among other things I ought to be attempting to get
less behind on PhD work), but I wanted to say something on the list now
before the usual Debian conspiracy theories could develop in response to
silence from those who know the facts.
--
Moray
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