[jcranmer]

> If the only way to get my contributions accepted into a project involves writing a paper about it, sure, I can do that. If it involves writing a paper about it, and then having endless meetings about it that could have been emails, some of which I have to physically travel to, I can't be bothered. I've left actual paying jobs over that, I'm not doing it for free.

If most people wrote papers that were so perfect in their construction that no one would ever need to ask questions about their content, as every relevant question would be answered by reading the paper, then there wouldn't need to be a need to shepherd it through meetings. But in my limited experience, most papers aren't like that. In the numerics study group, we had one paper at the most recent meeting that was so vague, we eventually decided we had no idea what the paper was actually proposing, so answering the question "would we like to move forward with this idea" was impossible. And with the author not being present... well, that's more or less the end of the road for that idea.

[blep_]

So send an email, and ignore it until you get a response. You don't need to fly to Kona for this.

[dxuh]

Not just the paper has to be perfect, but all the reviewers too. Sadly people don't just ask reasonable and already unanswered questions.