[Foundation-l] Final thoughts on Jimbo

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think it's time to back away from this issue.  Jimbo may,
> > technically, be able to restore his powers, however, if he decided to
> > use them in order to  make another controversial action, they wouldn't
> > last five minutes.
>
> You may well be right, but you may well be wrong.  But it's not fair
> to ask us to contribute our time, energy, and money to a project that
> 'may'  have an abusive superuser, ya know?   If the Wikimedia
> Foundation  is going to continue to a functional relationship with its
> projects, this needs to be resolved with absolute crystal clarify.
>

This is silly. There are many users that /may/ have superuser powers.
Live with it. Even if jimbo is removed from all flags, there are people with
shell access that can do (right now) much more than jimbo can with the
founder flag.

You may want to close your eyes,but truth is, you must trust. There will
always someone able to do more than you or anybody else. Or what, are you
proposing removing all devs access just because they in theory could abuse
it?

Again: face it. There will always someone with the capability to become
superuser. It's always been the case and it will continue being so, jimbo or
not