Board meeting discussing 3rd party repos

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:21 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:09 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> FYI, there will be a Board meeting today at 19:00 UTC in
>>>>>> #fedora-meeting-1 on freenode to discuss the 3rd party repo ticket
>>>>>> that was submitted.  Please join if you can.
>>>>>
>>>>> Second time I've read about this ticket, and haven't seen a URL yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you send the link?
>>>>
>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/169 however the Board trac
>>>> instance is private and you will not be able to read it.
>>>
>>> What? Why? This somehow contradicts the openness Fedora stands for ...
>>
>> This is not a new development.  The Board trac instance has been
>> private since it was created.  The Board at times deals with legal
>> issues of a sensitive nature that cannot be discussed in public.
>
> OK fair enough but can't this sensitive tickets (like legal ones) be
> marked as private (not sure if trac allows that like you can do in
> bugzilla) and leave
> other ones like this one public?

No.  Trac is horrible and doesn't let you do that.  This has been
suggested already.  As Stephen pointed out, it might be worth looking
again at upstream trac but that would still require a new rollout of
trac before it could happen.

josh