[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] HTTPS for logged in users on Wednesday August 21st

[Nathan]

Hi, context please?

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:31 PM, George William Herbert
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> +foundation-l
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> On Aug 20, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> This is an acceptable trade-off which we've allowed the Chinese government
>> to make for us before, and here we're talking about a much smaller effect
>> (on contributors only).
>>
>> Again, it's not our business to fix China. China has to fix China.
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> None of which changes that this is not properly an ops team decision, particularly without notification, warning, workaround explained to people.
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> If the explanation as to the effects on users in those locales is correct, I would like the Ops team to voluntarily stand back and notify and allow some wider discussion and explanation of the workaround.
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> If Ops won't do that, then I would like to request that the WMF executive intervene and direct ops to pause and allow wider notification and discussion and explanation of the workaround.
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> If the WMF executive is not willing I would like to request that the Board review the situation promptly and direct a pause per above.
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> The outcome is not wrong.  THIS IS THE WRONG WAY TO DO IT, without warning and explanation to the community.
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