Just in terms of the amount of everyone's time that MediaViewer, Superprotect and related issues are absorbing, this situation is a net negative for the projects. Also, the amount of emotional hostility that this situation involves is disheartening. Personally, I would like to see us building on each other's work instead of feuding, and I'm getting MediaViewer issue fatigue.
WMF's principal argument against letting projects make local decisions about configurations of MediaViewer seems to be that having a multitude of site configurations is impractical for site maintainability and development of new features. The Technical Committee would be in a good position to make global decisions on a consensus basis.
Pine