On 2015-01-08 11:15:14 (-0500), Dave Neary <dneary@redhat.com> wrote:
If Pentabarf says your talk is accepted, that means that the track chairs set its status to accepted.
It will only show up on the schedule when it's accepted/confirmed. You (devroom coordinator) need to set "confirmed".
If your status is unconfirmed, that means that the talk status was not updated (it should be auto-updated when you reconfirm your attendance in your profile, but Philip mentioned there's a known bug preventing that updating from happening). That status needs to be manually updated by track chairs, and I simply did it for all the talks I accepted.
This affects the change from "confirmed" to "reconfirmed". If an event is not even "confirmed" it has no chance of ever ending up on the schedule.
Incidentally, setting talk status to accepted does not notify the speakers their talk was accepted - I had to extract email addresses and manually notify people (a bit of a pain). I imagine that some track chairs may not be aware that they need to do this.
I'm sure this limitation was pointed out on the devroom-managers@ mailing list once or twice. :) I do have an Evil Perl Hack that can extract lists of email for devroom organisers if they want it. There are very good reasons not to allow web-facing things to send email! Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information