Minutes/2025-02-21

Present: RL, MM

Apologies: TM

• Administration
  • comp.sys.wearables
    • Still awaiting confirmation from Greg Pfeil that approvals are working again. No response from Greg to RL's email. MM to post a test message to the group.
  • comp.protocols.dns.bind
    • Last contact from Dan Mahoney on 2024-10-26. Agreed to defer consideration a while longer.
  • comp.lang.asm.x86
    • No response yet to RL's message to three volunteers asking for an update. RL has pinged the volunteers again; awaiting response.
  • 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
    • TM still to prepare a group removal RFD.
  • Moderated groups without moderators
    • TM posted 2nd RFD on 2025-02-02. There has been some discussion in news.groups and news.groups.proposals: some users want the proposed changes to be publicised more widely, some want groups to be converted to unmoderated rather than removed. Agreed to discuss further when TM is present.
    • RL has been corresponding with with the user who volunteered to to moderate soc.genealogy.surnames.britain . No response as of 2025-02-21; RL to write to the volunteer again.
  • news.admin.announce
    • RL to configure STUMP so that TM, MM, and RL are moderators.
• Infrastructure
  • NodePing monitoring is reporting downtime for the Board website. RL is not seeing this downtime on the UptimeRobot dashboard, although there are some short periods with unusually long response times that do not seem to correlate with the downtime reported by NodePing. MM to investigate.
  • Status of cron jobs for offsite backups: No further update from RL.
• 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
• Misc
  • Paul Schleck proposals: no further progress.
  • BDCAM25: RL and TM still to start discussing their talk via e-mail.