Board meeting discussing 3rd party repos

Thu Jan 23 16:00:55 UTC 2014

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On 01/23/2014 10:35 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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?
> 
> It was discussed several time by Board but Trac does not support
> it. At least that time it was not possible. If anyone is able to
> work on support for private tickets, it would be awesome.
> 

Modern versions of Trac (0.11 and later) can install the
http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/PrivateTicketsPlugin for this purpose.

Since the Board Trac instance reports:
Powered by Trac 0.12.5

I should think this would be pretty straightforward.