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Bug 677824

Summary: Deferred decision: Forums (specifically OTW)
Product: Gentoo Council Reporter: Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) <k_f>
Component: unspecifiedAssignee: Gentoo Council <council>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: forum-mods, mgorny
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754009
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Description Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-02-12 19:18:55 UTC
The agenda item  Forums (specifically OTW) was deferred to further discussion in the mailing lists during the 2019-02-10 meeting. Opening bug to keep it in council's follow-up later.

Agenda: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/5c0c0f5552709aca0154b554b9b451fa
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-04-26 13:36:32 UTC
Ping.  Are the Council members going to finally start this 'further discussion'?
Comment 2 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-06-04 13:54:40 UTC
Discussion re-opened in https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/72959ed6fe1f0100252ad6579572a736
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-07-21 20:26:53 UTC
Closing for now, as discussed in today's council meeting.
Please reopen when there is input from the mailing list.
Comment 4 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-11-12 00:46:43 UTC
Re-opening as new discussions have taken ad-hoc on IRC about the removal of OTW.
Comment 5 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2021-01-09 17:44:58 UTC
(In reply to Aaron Bauman from comment #4)
> Re-opening as new discussions have taken ad-hoc on IRC about the removal of
> OTW.

OTW is now hidden completely, except to moderators and admins (and this was done a week ago I believe.)

-A
Comment 6 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2021-01-10 20:17:20 UTC
Marking as fixed. Vote by council@ happened on 2020-12-13 (sorry, no meeting summaries yet): https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20201213.txt

Specific Motion:
"Shut down OTW (i.e. make unaccessible and wipe the database if possible later) with a deadline of 2020-12-31. There is the option of re-creating a new blank off-topic forum from scratch, with stricter rules."

motion passed with 6 yes votes and 1 abstention.
Comment 7 Chiitoo gentoo-dev 2021-01-11 00:19:29 UTC
(In reply to Alec Warner from comment #5)
> OTW is now hidden completely, except to moderators and admins (and this was
> done a week ago I believe.)

More than a week ago actually, on 27/28th.