The issue is not just that individual users may want to opt out, it's whether it should be activated by default for readers. There is also the matter of licensing information.
I'm not aware of where "thermonuclear was was threatened". There were, and continues to be, discussion about forking. MV is merely the latest occurrence of products with major problems being pushed into production and made default. That needs to be addressed, and the fact that the problems with MV happened after AFT5 and VE *and* after the creation of the Engineering Community Liaisons suggests deep, long-term problems with product development. I believe that Lila said that the Board wants her to transform WMF and I am glad that there seems to be agreement that Product will be an early subject of transformation. I have reservations about forking for reasons that I can explain if necessary. It would be a lot easier if WMF would transform itself, starting with Product, and Lila appears to intend to make this happen. I hope that the processes for Product will be democratic and consensus-based. Grantmaking has already demonstrated the effectiveness of community-based decision making with FDC and IEGCom, and I hope to see a similar model emerge for Product. If it doesn't, there is enough anger in the community, especially on DEWP, that a fork is possible. The community is smart enough collectively to figure out a way to make a fork happen, and some of us have been discussing the mechanics of how this would work. We could do it, but reforming WMF is preferable. I hope that Lila can and will do this. Internal transofmration is preferable to replacing WMF. Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
