(The self-service suggestion and the opinions below are mine, posted here with the best of my community intentions.)
Hi Yaroslav,
On Saturday, September 6, 2014, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod@mccme.ru javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','putevod@mccme.ru');> wrote:
actually, this is exactly what is happening now and this is what caused this turmoil yesterday night.
The situation you describe and the hypothetical self-service process I suggested are different.
I guess we start from the concept, and the next step would be for
volunteers to instal Flow a their talk pages. If they can survive for a couple of months, we can talk about it further.
Discussing concepts is better done while trying prototypes, alphas, betas (and we have been doing this for Flow for about a year now). For instance, I believe mw:Winter is progressing in the way it is progressing thanks to a good balance between conceptual discussions, prototyping iterations, and actual testing. Flow itself is progressing well thanks to the limited deployments in some real pages.
Allowing users to activate Flow in their Talk pages would fit in the self-service idea. If the development team decides to open this possibility, I will not hesitate in joining the trial.