On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfaker@wikimedia.org 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.
- How long is this transition process supposed to take?
Not defined yet.
- 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.
- 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.