I have a reply to this in my Drafts folder, but I'd like to sit on it for at least 24 hours, because I like and respect Nick, and I recognize that I am pretty deeply invested in this particular topic. Frank and open discussion is one thing, but I'd like to make sure I don't step over the line into antagonism.
Nick, thanks for your note, and for making me think hard about this. --KT. Nick Alexander <[email protected]> writes: > On 2014-08-19, 11:50 AM, Karl Thiessen wrote: >> I will emphatically refer Nick to bug 1031621 -- I disagree really, really >> strongly. > > Noted. I'm not saying I don't think this is important; I'm saying > that this is not an issue I feel strongly about *personally*, and that > jumping through hoops to allow this is a bad investment for this team. > >> By December, we are denying 11/12 of 13-year-olds access to the >> system with no legal reason to do so, which makes FxA entirely >> useless for, just to pick an example, any middle-schools teaching >> kids about how to create on the web. > > Sure. We also don't support iOS users in any meaningful way. With > respect, we have to choose our battles. "Choose your battles" always > means "I want to choose your battles", and I tried to say that by > emphasizing "my political *feathers*", which I see I typo-ed in my > original email. > >> If we decide not to fix this, I want the person who takes that >> decision to personally write a message to the filer of 1031621 and >> explain to him why his participation on the Web is not important to >> us. > > There are all sorts of ways to contribute to the web, and to > contribute to the web at Mozilla. Not all of them require Mozilla to > safe-guard data deemed "sensitive". The fact that we have to jump > through mis-guided legal hoops is annoying, but not the biggest issue > we have. In this particular case, non-action is reasonable: at a very > clear future point (dependent on the user!), this is not an issue for > any individual user. > > Nick _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
