Minutes/2025-05-23
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
Present: TM, RL
Apologies: MM
- Administration
- comp.lang.asm.x86
- RL is continuing to coordinate setting up a moderation system with Terje.
- 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.
- comp.compression.research
- Result of e-mail voting: 3–0–1 to delete the group. TM posted the result and will now contact the ISC.
- Moderated groups without moderators
- Result of e-mail voting: 3–0–1 to delete the groups. TM posted the result and will now contact the ISC.
- soc.genealogy.surnames.britain : No further update from volunteer.
- rec.humor.funny : No further communication from Brad Templeton.
- comp.newprod , comp.simulation , comp.std.announce , and rec.photo.moderated : Ivan Shmakov has provided submission and moderator contact addresses. RL to inform the ISC.
- comp.binaries.cbm : RL is continuing to coordinate things with the new moderator.
- rec.arts.anime.creative : RL still awaiting a response from tidux.
- soc.sexuality.general (non-functioning moderated group): Agreed to defer until a majority of Board members are present.
- soc.culture.jewish.moderated (non-functioning moderated group): Agreed to defer until a majority of Board members are present.
- comp.sys.wearables : On 2025-05-08 RL pinged Greg Pfeil for an update on the moderation infrastructure. No response yet.
- comp.protocols.dns.bind : On 2025-05-02 MM pinged Dan Mahoney for an update on the mail-to-news gateway. No response yet.
- comp.lang.asm.x86
- Infrastructure
- Status of cron jobs for offsite backups: Agreed to defer.
- Decommissioning of the mail.big-8.org domain blocked until we have backups in place.
- Decommissioning Mail in a Box, Nextcloud, etc. blocked until we have backups in place.
- 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
- OpenCollective refused to confirm a self-approved payment request by RL for web hosting because the invoice was made out to JE. RL to ask JE to approve the payment request. RL to arrange for the name on the hosting account to be changed to his.
- Misc
- Paul Schleck's proposals of August 2024: TM to make the corresponding updates to the Board's wiki.
