Hello, I'm not (yet? ;-) a bord member, but I can provide some updates nevertheless: Am Montag, 6. Februar 2017, 16:15:18 CET schrieb Richard Brown:
long/no response to admin@opensuse.org tickets,
Those waiting for IRC cloaks should be happy now - I requested cloaks for several people (should be in place already), so those tickets are finally closed now. If someone is openSUSE Member and still misses his/her cloak, please mail admin@opensuse.org. Please include a link to your connect.o.o profile page to make our life easier ;-) On the long term, the cloaks should probably be requested by the membership comittee - doing it doesn't need root permissions. (We only need to get the right people on the freenode group contact list so that they can do it.) For the pending OBS repo requests, we decided in the Heroes meeting yesterday to set an ETA of two weeks. Either the requested projects will be created until then, or someone will get "visited" in his office ;-) Pending mirror tickets will get a similar threatment. FYI: at the moment, we have exactly 300 open admin tickets, and the oldest open ticket is 3 years old :-( Needless to say that I don't like this state ;-) I closed quite some tickets since joining the Heroes team (including lots of low-hanging fruits like the IRC cloaks and "add my blog on planet" requests. Those are easy and quick to fix, but quite annoying for the affected people). Unfortunately I don't have time and permission to do everything ;-) (and no, this is not meant as "give me more permissions" - I'm already busy enough ;-)
now issues with news.opensuse.org.
I have news from Provo: news.opensuse.org was updated to the latest WordPress two hours ago :-) This should prevent the attacks we've seen, but it's still WordPress ;-) and therefore IMHO insecure by definition (replacing it is another thing on our TODO list)
In the last few days there has been an uptick in the urgency in which these concerns are being addressed. Given this, the Board decided in todays meeting to take no immediate action, but to have an extraordinary Board meeting at 1500 CEST next Monday 13th Feb to review the situation and discuss next steps.
Feel free to kick any admin who let tickets bitrot ;-) (and make sure to take a video of it *g*) No exceptions, so you are even allowed to kick me if I ever let a ticket bitrot ;-)
Once this election is complete, Tomas Chvatal and anyone else willing to help will be needed to find a suitable replacement for connect.opensuse.org for voting. We require both a voting platform (eg. Helios - https://heliosvoting.org/) and a suitable replacement database and process for approving openSUSE Members.
Approving Members is only part of connect's job. We should also keep the user profiles, groups, friendship etc. [1]. I'd even keep polls, but obviously we should repair them ;-) Disclaimer: I never looked at the code, so I don't know how hard a) updating to a newer elgg version or b) switching to something different would be. Regards, Christian Boltz [1] especially for people like me who refuse to create a facebook account ;-) -- The tone of my answers is directly related to my annoyance factor. [Robert Schweikert in opensuse-project] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org