On 21/08/13 12:22, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM, George William
Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The change must be delayed until people
geographically / nationally denied HTTPS can log in again.
Tim's working on a patch that should make this possible:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80166/
The plan of record right now is to not make the switch til we have
that merged & tested. We may still be able to make the launch window
tomorrow - RobLa will make the final call on that.
I don't think it is a great idea to enable $wgSecureLogin with
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/47089/ unreverted and unfixed. And
my own patches probably need more testing.
In general, though, I'd prefer for WMF to move
away from what could be
characterized as appeasement and towards actively resisting censorship
and monitoring. So I'd argue in favor of a deadline for this approach,
and alignment of resources and alliances to take active measures
against censorship and monitoring.
That's not really what I signed up for. I would like WMF to play an
increasing role in the education of the people of the PRC, and I think
actively resisting censorship is opposed to that goal. We will be
blocked, and thus lose almost all of our PRC traffic.
I support circumvention of China's censorship, and more fundamentally,
I want China to be more open and democratic. However, I think that
measures to achieve these goals should be done at arm's length from
the Foundation.
-- Tim Starling