Minutes/2025-01-17 - Revision history

Tristan Miller at 17:19, 24 January 2025

2025-01-24T17:19:50Z

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			Present: TM, MM, RL

	* Administration		* Administration
	** {{news\|rec.arts.comics.reviews}} and {{news\|rec.arts.comics.info}}		** {{news\|rec.arts.comics.reviews}} and {{news\|rec.arts.comics.info}}

Tristan Miller at 05:22, 19 January 2025

2025-01-19T05:22:49Z

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	** [[news.groups.proposals]]		** [[news.groups.proposals]]
	*** The group's signing key uses the e-mail address ngp-approval-key@ngp.big-8.org. Agreed to leave this as-is for now, as this is just an identifier. We can later consider adding a new identity with a new address, and/or upgrading to a GPGv2 key.		*** The group's signing key uses the e-mail address ngp-approval-key@ngp.big-8.org. Agreed to leave this as-is for now, as this is just an identifier. We can later consider adding a new identity with a new address, and/or upgrading to a GPGv2 key.
	*** E-mail from ~~Paul Schleck~~ noting that when the moderation system was moved from his infrastructure to ours, the cross-posting limit was inadvertently set too low. RL has now raised this limit to 3. TM drew the Board's attention to the cross-posting policy set out in the [[charter for news.groups.proposals]]: "Crossposting to unmoderated newsgroups relevant to a particular proposal may be permitted, at the discretion of the moderators. With some exceptions (such as RFD announcements and FAQs), crossposting to other moderated groups is not permitted."		*** E-mail from Jonathan Kamens noting that when the moderation system was moved from his infrastructure to ours, the cross-posting limit was inadvertently set too low. RL has now raised this limit to 3. TM drew the Board's attention to the cross-posting policy set out in the [[charter for news.groups.proposals]]: "Crossposting to unmoderated newsgroups relevant to a particular proposal may be permitted, at the discretion of the moderators. With some exceptions (such as RFD announcements and FAQs), crossposting to other moderated groups is not permitted."
	** {{news\|comp.compression.research}}		** {{news\|comp.compression.research}}
	*** TM still to prepare a group removal RFD.		*** TM still to prepare a group removal RFD.

Tristan Miller: Created page with "* Administration {{news|rec.arts.comics.reviews}} and {{news|rec.arts.comics.info}} * TM to announce result of vote: 3 in favour of removing the groups; 1 not voting. {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} * Still awaiting confirmation from Greg Pfeil that approvals are working again. We can then announce this in {{news|news.groups.proposals}}. {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} * Last contact from Dan Mahoney on 2024-10-26. Agreed to defer consideration a while long..."

2025-01-18T20:11:00Z

Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|rec.arts.comics.reviews}} and {{news|rec.arts.comics.info}} *** TM to announce result of vote: 3 in favour of removing the groups; 1 not voting. ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** Still awaiting confirmation from Greg Pfeil that approvals are working again. We can then announce this in {{news|news.groups.proposals}}. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** Last contact from Dan Mahoney on 2024-10-26. Agreed to defer consideration a while long..."

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* Administration
** {{news|rec.arts.comics.reviews}} and {{news|rec.arts.comics.info}}
*** TM to announce result of vote: 3 in favour of removing the groups; 1 not voting.
** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}}
*** Still awaiting confirmation from Greg Pfeil that approvals are working again. We can then announce this in {{news|news.groups.proposals}}.
** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}}
*** Last contact from Dan Mahoney on 2024-10-26. Agreed to defer consideration a while longer.
** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}}
*** TM to announce result of vote: 3 in favour of removing the groups; 1 not voting.
*** The meeting noted additional discussion on the RfD objecting to the idea of using this group as a test case for demoderation and so agreed not to carry out the experiment on this group.
** {{news|comp.lang.asm.x86}}
*** No response yet to RL's message to three volunteers asking for an update. Agreed to wait one further week and then if necessary send another message.
** [[news.groups.proposals]]
*** The group's signing key uses the e-mail address ngp-approval-key@ngp.big-8.org. Agreed to leave this as-is for now, as this is just an identifier. We can later consider adding a new identity with a new address, and/or upgrading to a GPGv2 key.
*** E-mail from Paul Schleck noting that when the moderation system was moved from his infrastructure to ours, the cross-posting limit was inadvertently set too low. RL has now raised this limit to 3. TM drew the Board's attention to the cross-posting policy set out in the [[charter for news.groups.proposals]]: "Crossposting to unmoderated newsgroups relevant to a particular proposal may be permitted, at the discretion of the moderators. With some exceptions (such as RFD announcements and FAQs), crossposting to other moderated groups is not permitted."
** {{news|comp.compression.research}}
*** TM still to prepare a group removal RFD.
** Moderated groups without moderators
*** Discussion of 1st RFD is continuing.
*** 2nd RFD due to be posted on 2025-01-31.
*** MM wrote to the user somehow posting to {{news|rec.arts.movies.reviews}} but has not yet received a response.
*** RL has been corresponding with with the user who volunteered to to moderate {{news|soc.genealogy.surnames.britain}}.
** [[news.admin.announce]]
*** No response yet from Tim Skirvin regarding whether he still wants to moderate the group. TM to ping him one final time.
* Infrastructure
** Status of cron jobs for offsite backups: No further update from RL.
** Remote monitoring
*** MM still liaising with Ivo Gandolfo to set up remote monitoring.
** Monitoring status check warning
*** RL to change the domain in the From address for the status reports from mail.big-8.org to big-8.org to avoid future delivery errors.
* Software/funding
** TM: No update yet on GPG signing best practices on Savannah
** Thunderbird 128 contact deferred given Julien's comments on INN.
** TM still to respond to Julien.
** OTF IFF/NGI0/[https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/ Sovereign Tech Fund]: no further updates
* Misc
** Paul Schleck proposals: no further progress.
** BDCAM25: TM met with Katie Szilagyi to plan their talk on legal aspects of Usenet research. RL and TM to start discussing their talk via e-mail.

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