Minutes/2026-04-02
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
Present: TM, RL
- Administration
- Unused comp.unix.* groups
- Three votes received by e-mail: 1 for, 1 against, and 1 abstaining. With no majority in favour of the proposals, the status quo holds. TM to post the results to news.groups.proposals
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- Three votes received by e-mail: 1 for, 1 against, and 1 abstaining. With no majority in favour of the proposals, the status quo holds. TM to post the results to news.groups.proposals
- Unused comp.unix.* groups
- Infrastructure
- RL reported that the backup script failed to dump the database for the B8MB wiki, apparently due to a directory being deleted. TM said he had mistakenly removed the directory. RL re-created directory.
- RL reported intermittent downtime alerts for the big-8.org website, no clear cause and usually only for a few minutes at a time.
- RL reported that 70% of requests to wiki seem to be from Amazon bots; RL to investigate blocking the associated user-agent in robots.txt.
- The Board received its annual Panix invoice, which should be automatically paid from the card on file.
- RL observed that our Open Collective account is low on funds and should be topped up. Agreed to defer discussion of this to a meeting where MM is also present, and also to inform JE of whatever is decided.
