Minutes/2025-02-28

Present: RL, MM, TM

• Administration
  • comp.sys.wearables
    • RL has fixed a problem with approvals. Greg Pfeil has posted a message to say the group still works. RL posted a moderator found message to NGP and web page. TM to post the announcement to social media. Board to remind Greg on 25 April about migrating the moderation system to his own infrastructure.
  • comp.protocols.dns.bind
    • Last contact from Dan Mahoney on 2024-10-26. Agreed to defer consideration until 25 April, at which time the Board will request another update.
  • comp.lang.asm.x86
    • No response yet to RL's message to three volunteers asking for an update. RL has pinged the volunteers again on 2025-02-21; awaiting a 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
    • In light of the feedback received and TM's absences this month, the meeting agreed to extend the RFD by another month and to publicize it on groups where moderators are more likely to be found. TM to prepare drafts of (a) a 3rd RFD, (b) a thematic clustering of the newsgroups to be deleted along with target newsgroups for each cluster, and (c) a draft announcement to post to each cluster's target grousp.
    • 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 wrote to the volunteer again on 2025-02-27; awaiting a response.
  • news.admin.announce
    • RL has configured STUMP so that TM, MM, and RL are moderators. RL to test approvals, to inform the ISC about the change in submission address, to update our wiki's information about the group, and to post an announcement about the new moderators to news.admin.announce, news.groups.proposals, and news.announce.newgroups.
• 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. RL to investigate.
  • Status of cron jobs for offsite backups: No further update from RL.
  • TM noted that the e-mail notifications sent by our STUMP instance still directs users to the http: version of our site. RL to investigate changing this to use https:.
  • RL reported that Contabo has increased our web hosting prices by 20%.
  • Renewal notice for big-8.org domain name. RL to check whether this is still being billed to JS, and if not, to pay the renewal himself.
• 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.