[Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

[Steven Walling]

The discussion has only been going on at the OTRS list sine February 1st. I
know a public announcement is coming because it's standard operating
procedure at the Foundation. Please be patient.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Steven Walling wrote:
> > These changes were going to be discussed and documented in public...
> [...]
> > Speaking as an OTRS volunteer not as a staff member (this initiative
> isn't
> > part of my job)...
>
> I don't follow. How do you know that these changes were going to be
> discussed and documented in public? These changes have been discussed for
> at
> least some portion of January without any community involvement. When,
> exactly, was the community going be made aware that these changes were
> being
> discussed? When was the community going to be made aware that these changes
> had been implemented? An announcement has already been made. When was the
> Community Department going to involve the community (at least to give it a
> courtesy heads-up)?
>
> > No one can give definitive answers about a process that
> > isn't finalized yet, and it's been conducted in private for the last
> couple
> > days out of respect for the people whose personal information is
> potentially
> > involved here.
>
> Can you explain this further? You won't discuss an issue that involves the
> community because of respect for what? What you're saying makes absolutely
> no sense. If basic questions can't be answered about, for example, data
> retention after this change has been announced (and to an extent
> implemented), I don't see how Wikimedia is respecting its volunteers or
> their private information.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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