Indeed. That was good-faith "apparently" as in "the evidence suggests". Thank you for your explicit assumption of good-faith. I'm sorry I came off badly.
The argument I'd like to make to the Stewards is that (short of a good argument about why we should have a gate here) there should be no process for them to adopt. -Aaron On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
