Hello Shirish
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 18:06, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am not a programmer, just a user.
>
> I was going through the pain points and suggestions I had given
> (either publicly or/and privately) to improve debconf flow, maybe part
> of it could be implemented the upcoming year.
>
> While it was too late then to improve the existing process, we
> probably have enough time to improve part of the web form for 2017 -
>
> The only details required are -
>
> a. Name of the prospective attendee -
> b. Passport Number -
> c. Address -
I’m not sure it will work.
1-
visa@ requires some mail exchange to establish the purpose of visa: There are
many “random” requests from user who have absolutely no idea what it is Debian
or Free Software. Such users check conference calendars and send request of
invitation to all of them.
Additionally, on past we started the process in the web-interface and continued
via email (for special needs, etc.), but it has show that it doesn’t work and
it cause too much extra work on organisation side. People tend not to reply to
emails, or just ignoring us. So we must let a lot of time before to close the
“ticket”.
I would assume that for @visa it is the same. Attendees who requires special
consideration (and a lot of work to find the real intent), really needs to make
the first step manually, to show some minimal interest.
2-
Privacy. Things set in our conference system is readable by a lot of orga
people. Visa is choose as a very small group, to handle such personal
informations (like passport copies).
Adding such information will require much more effort to us, to implement finer
permissions.
Note: now we don’t have anymore the problem: although the visa procedure is
different every year (because of different country laws), now it will not add
debconf-specific special fields. (but we were not so good either on other
fields, unfortunately).
ciao
cate
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