Minutes/2025-06-20

Present: TM, RL, MM

• Administration
  • comp.lang.asm.x86
    • RL pinged Terje on 2025-06-20 regarding setting up a moderation system with Terje.
  • news.groups.proposals
    • RL still investigating the best practices for transitioning to a new signing key. TM suggested a transitional period during which both keys are used to sign messages, after which we might revoke the old key. RL to check whether the e-mail address for the old key ID, ngp-approval-key@ngp.big-8.org, is set up to autorespond with the public key. TM suggested that for the new key, we may want to change e-mail associated with the primary ID to something like ngp-approval-key@big-8.org so as to avoid use of a mail subdomain (and the associated problems).
  • comp.compression.research
    • rmgroup control messages were posted on 2025-06-18 and 2025-06-19.
  • Moderated groups without moderators
    • rmgroup control messages were posted on 2025-06-18 and 2025-06-19.
    • soc.genealogy.surnames.britain : RL pinged the volunteer on 2025-06-20. If we receive no further response, we will consider removing the group in a future mass deletion at least one year from now.
    • rec.humor.funny : No further communication with Brad Templeton.
    • comp.newprod , comp.simulation , comp.std.announce , and rec.photo.moderated : TM publicized the MODERATOR FOUND announcements on social media, and the new moderator, Ivan Shmakov, has successfully announced the change in moderator on the groups. The meeting also noted a discussion on news.groups.proposals that arose from the appointments of a new moderator.
    • comp.binaries.cbm : RL pinged the prospective moderator on 2025-06-20.
    • rec.arts.anime.creative : RL pinged the prospective moderator on 2025-06-20.
  • soc.sexuality.general (non-functioning moderated group): TM is still in correspondence with two of the former moderators.
  • soc.culture.jewish.moderated (non-functioning moderated group): TM posted the 2nd RFD and has written back to the former moderator and someone they nominated as a prospective moderator.
  • comp.sys.wearables : On 2025-06-20 RL pinged Greg Pfeil for an update on the moderation infrastructure. In any case, agreed to wait several more months for further action.
  • comp.protocols.dns.bind : On 2025-05-02 MM pinged Dan Mahoney for an update on the mail-to-news gateway. No response yet. In any case, agreed to wait several more months for further action.
  • Unused comp.unix.* groups: MM gave usage statistics on the 17 groups in the comp.unix.* hierarchy he is considering proposing for deletion. TM and RL to offer comments/proposals by e-mail, to be discussed at the next meeting.
• Infrastructure
  • Decommissioning of the mail.big-8.org domain and of Mail-in-a-Box, Nextcloud, etc.
    • MM wrote to JE to inform him that we are planning to decommission Nextcloud and suggesting that he back up any files he has stored there. No response yet.
    • MM still to investigate the decommissioning procedure and report back to a future meeting.
  • RL fixed the permissions error from user www-data's daily cron job to delete certain munin directories.
• 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/Sovereign Tech Fund: no further updates
  • No response yet from JE to RL's e-mails and direct messages about the OpenCollective expense. RL to arrange for the name on the hosting account to be changed to his own.
  • TM reported that there has been further developer activity on the news-related Thunderbird bugs he reported and/or triaged.