On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Is there a clearly good reason that we need to continue this review
> process?  If not, I find it very frustrating that we're slowing things down
> so much because of imagined boogie-men.  The idea of
> permission-just-in-case-someone-does-a-bad-thing is opposed to the wiki
> model of keeping things as open as possible and addressing problems as they
> happen.  In the meantime, we're encouraging bad behavior by making the
> OAuth system such a pain to work with.  I understand that you're doing this
> in your free time csteipp, but the pain of delays is still inflicted on
> tool developers all the same.  Maybe it is inappropriate that such a key
> infrastructure (and official requirement for Labs-based tools) is left up
> to volunteer time of someone who is apparently overworked.
>
>
I'm very happy for other people to join this process. I believe there's an
open bug about making approvals automatic for non-controversial rights.
Patches welcome.


>    1. How long is this transition process supposed to take?
>

Not defined yet.


>    2. Should I start making my argument to the Stewards now?
>

About what? If you have something that's not controversial, ping one of the
admins, and I'm sure you can get your Consumer approved today.


>    3. Is there a public conversation about this transition that I can
>    participate in?
>
>
The RFC is the correct place. The Stewards are just getting back from
travelling so I don't think we've started updating it to account for our
conversations last week, but that is where we will work out the details.
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