Hi Floor, Is there any ETA on when we can expect this remedial work to be completed?
Regards, Craig Franklin 2015-09-29 8:09 GMT+10:00 Floor Koudijs <[email protected]>: > Dear Filip, > > I am so very sorry to hear about these frustrations with the deployment of > the Education Extension. The problem is that there have been recent > security issues with the extension. Engineering and our Trust & Safety > department are working on some stop gaps to allow the extension to remain > in place (and likely be deployed) while we determine what to do with the > recent security issues. > > Please rest assured that we are working hard both on keeping the Education > Extension going, and on thinking about a better tool to replace it for the > future. > > Feel free to follow up if you have any further questions. I've cc-ed James > Alexander here. > > Best, > > > Floor Koudijs > > Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > > Wikimedia Foundation > > +1.415.839.6885 x6806 (landline) > > +1.415.692.5289 (cell phone) > > [email protected] > > education.wikimedia.org > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Filip Maljkovic <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Recently, a security issue has been found with Education extension. As a >> result, new requests for installing the extension on Wikimedia wikis are >> being "stalled", i.e. blocked for an indeterminate period. Can someone from >> the Foundation comment on this? I don't see why we shouldn't install the >> extension to more wikis, if the current installations are still working >> as-is (i.e. they're not being uninstalled because of the security issue, as >> far as I know). >> >> While it might be a long shot, is it possible to influence this decision >> somehow? >> >> I feel thoroughly disappointed, having held community discussion and >> vote, and then waiting for a month (!) for no apparent reason, just to be >> outright told that it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. [1] >> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110619 >> >> Cheers, >> Filip Maljković >> Wikimedia Serbia >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Education mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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