I agree that while possibly made with good intentions, policy changes like these should go through dev community discussion + vote, not be handed down from a CTO. Wikipedia as a movement started that way, and many people participated in it because of its transparency and community-driven process. Just because now there is a large split between "community" and "WMF staff who gets +2 automatically", we should try to keep the original values.
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:33 PM Zppix megadev44s.mail@gmail.com wrote:
Andre, from what im gathering from this thread thats not what I understand, so i redact the part of my last email about toolforge, however my point on this policy change should of been put to a community vote/consensus is valid.
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On Mar 16, 2019, at 1:13 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 12:40 -0500, Zppix wrote: So your basically telling me, I can’t decide who gets the power to +2 on for example a toolforge tool I actively am the primary maintainer of? Instead it has to be requested. I do not disagree with a lot of the changes to technical policies, but with this change it seems to restrict ability to scale projects. I also do believe that this change should of be taken under RfC or some sort of consensus-gaining measure. I respect the intentions, but I absolutely think the change needs reverted then voted on by the technical community.
Did you read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Privilege_policy ?
It says "For extensions (and other projects) not deployed to the Wikimedia cluster, the code review policy is up to the maintainer or author of the extension."
andre
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