Hello, To clarify, an RFC process has been done as per requirements, and followed the official process. There has been a discussion, an IRC meeting, a discussion in Tech Comm, an approval from DBAs, a last call announcement, and, eventually, an approval by the Technical Committee as per procedure.
For more details, see: * The RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199917 * TechComm minutes discussion for the RfC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes/2018-08-01 * RfC IRC meeting led by TechComm - Email announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090482.html - Log: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-08-21.00.log.html - Minutes: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-08-21.00.html * Tech Comm placing this RfC under "Last call" ending 5 September 2pm PST (21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes/2018-08-29 * Tech Comm approval of the RfC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes/2018-09-05 Thanks, Moriel On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:52 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Moriel Schottlender, 08/01/19 03:53: > > The new “Partial Blocks” feature has fundamentally changed the way > > MediaWiki considers what “block” means; > > Given this was not fully considered before applying the change, the > safest way forward is to revert the change and open an RfC to list all > the considerations you mention *before* applying it again. > > Federico > -- Moriel Schottlender (she/her) Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead Community Tech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> and Anti Harassment Tools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Tools> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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