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) <nemowiki@gmail.com> 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