Minutes/2025-02-07

Present: TM, MM

Apologies: RL

• Administration
  • comp.sys.wearables
    • Still awaiting confirmation from Greg Pfeil that approvals are working again. RL wrote Greg Pfeil asking if we can post an announcement now; awaiting response.
  • 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 still to ping the volunteers.
  • 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.
    • RL has been corresponding with with the user who volunteered to to moderate soc.genealogy.surnames.britain .
  • news.admin.announce
    • RL to configure STUMP so that TM, MM, and RL are moderators.
• Infrastructure
  • 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.