Minutes/2024-10-11

Present: RL, TM

Apologies: MM

Administration
- comp.sys.wearables
  - Still waiting for Greg Pfeil to confirm that he's now set up to send approved posts to this group.
- comp.protocols.dns.bind
  - No response yet from moderator to MM's correspondence.
- rec.radio.broadcasting
  - No response yet from the volunteer moderator.
- comp.os.plan9
  - No further progress on MVI draft. TM to look at it today and propose revisions as necessary.
- news.newusers.questions and news.announce.newusers
  - RL has installed and manually tested the scripts to periodically post the FAQs. These run from a cron job on Panix.
- comp.lang.asm.x86
  - RL will ping the volunteers for an update; in the meantime the MVI will remain open.
Infrastructure
- Status of cron jobs for offsite backups: no update from RL yet
- Status of remote monitoring: no update yet from MM
- Status of fail2ban: no update yet from MM
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
- RL made further improvements to PyModerator; it is now compatible with Python <= 3.11. It does not work yet with Python > 3.11 because those versions removed the module supporting NNTP. However, it remains available as a third-party module and so RL could possibly revise PyModerator to use it. RL also submitted his revisions to the developer and proposed creating a repository for the project on GitHub. The developer agreed to this and asked RL to do so.
Misc
- TUGboat article: Editors sent proofs and requested revisions to the manuscript. TM made the requested changes and resubmitted the manuscript. Article is slated to appear in the next issue.
- Paul Schleck proposals: no further progress
- DigiCAM25 (a.k.a. BDCAM25): No update yet from organizers on the format and timing of the panel.
- TM gave apologies for next week as he has a conflicting event.