On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:35:56PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The Fedora Project Board has a public mailing list, a private mailing list, > > a public IRC channel, and a ticket tracking system. This is all fine, but > > there are couple of quirks I'd like to straighten out. > > > > First, there is no such thing as the "Fedora Advisory Board". It's the > > "Fedora Project Board", or often for short just Fedora Board. The list name > > causes confusion, and possibly reinforces the incorrect idea that the > > Board's charter is _just_ to give advice. So, I'd like to change the mailing > > list to "board". And the same thing with the #fedora-advisory-board IRC > > channel, to #fedora-board. > > I'm not really sure changing the list to board (or board-discuss) is > really necessary, but I'm not majorly opposed. List migrations are > always a large pain though. The IRC channel is used infrequently > enough that renaming it shouldn't be a big deal at all. Or just > disbanding it, since we never actually meet there. > > > Second, the issue tracker https://fedorahosted.org/board/ is private. The > > board does need to deal with some sensitive issues so we need a private > > instance, but most tickets can and should be public. It looks like trac > > plugins to mix private and public tickets are kind of painful. And because > > there is a lot of stuff in there which was filed with the expectation of > > privacy, we can't just open that one up. So what I suggest is: a) we rename > > the existing trac and move all of its tickets to "board-private" (which > > matches the mailing list name) and b) we create a new, public trac named > > "board". > > This sounds like a decent plan. I might advocate for simply closing > all tickets in the current instance or migrating them to the public > one so we start with clean slates. If they're there because they're sensitive, closing would make more sense, but +1 otherwise. I would love to see this list (or rather, the list it becomes) once again have signs of life and constructive discussion. No one person can be accountable for that, though; it's really up to us subscribers. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
