On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Trilium,
My understanding is that the new policy is now active, meaning that identification documents are not required for checkusers and oversighters. I believe that identification documents are still required for WMF Board, FDC, Board Elections Committee, and Board Audit Committee appointments.
Can you explain what it is that worries you about this change in policy for checkusers and oversighters?
tldr: It isn't rolled out yet, however I'm hoping to do so during my free moments over the next month as we set up the election.
Actually, the policy is not yet active for anyone and identification is still required from checkusers and oversighters. Because of logistical (including that we needed to have a tool for the sign off and some adjustments to the confidentiality agreement itself to ensure it made more sense) and resource (both the lawyers involved and the CA staff have been slammed for the past year) issues the speed moving forward has been incredibly slow. The confidentiality agreement text has final approval from meta now (I haven't updated meta but I will early this week), at this point the only thing left is for translation of the agreement and for me to write up the announcements the teams who are affected and then notify them. That will start the 3 month time window and I hope to do so very soon. The upcoming board election is my number one priority, however this is my 2nd.
There is no doubt that we would have preferred to have finished this long ago at this point. However in the end the combination of figuring out exactly how to do the agreement and just finding time to do the necessary steps prevented us from going forward how we wanted too. We had to make quite a few compromises from how it was originally envisioned technically both throwing out the original idea of a unique tool to do it (in favor of using Phabricator legal pad) and not being able to do everything we originally expected in Phabricator. For better or worse the people responsible for the rollout on both the Legal and CA side are also some of the most over scheduled members of those teams during the past year and so the speed of advancement hasn't been what we'd like because other responsibilities had to take priority given that the existing policy was still in place.
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