On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 10:43:37AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > batching together travel reimbursement requests. > > HI. A while back, I suspended the automatic approval of reimbursements > for attending BSPs. You can still ask for approval for attending a > BSP, you can't just send me a reimbursement request with no approval. > > We had a bit of discussion about how things ought to/might work here. > Holger proposed that it would make more sense for the people running > BSPs to batch approvals kind of like we do for sprints and > mini-DebConfs. > > If we want to do things that way, no action is required on my part. I > am very willing to approve such budgets, and even to amend such budgets > if it looks like more people are coming. But I do actually want to see > them ahead of time, just so I know what's going on. > > So, if we're generally happy with BSP organizers putting together a > travel budget and handling who will get reimbursed, then I think the > next step is to write up how to do that on the wiki. > I'd appreciate it if someone would volunteer to do that. > If you get text together, please drop treasurer@debian.org a note asking > for review (that also reaches me). > > Asking BSP organizers to help with this is great from the DPL side. > The only concern is if it pushes the effort involved in organizing a > BSP up too much so people don't want to do it. > > If that ends up being the case I'm happy with some sort of automatic > approval process for DDs attending BSPs (and easy approval for other > contributors when that makes sense). > But let's figure out if we want BSP organizers to handle this first. FWIW, I would assume a procedure for BSPs would look very similar to the existing procedure for sprints, which is already documented somewhere. I think having a single procedure for "meetings" would be a win.
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