xchat and hexchat

2018-03-08 Thread Robie Basak
I'd like to bring the release team's attention to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat/+bug/1753169 This seems like a matter where people are getting quite personally and emotionally involved, so I think it's probably best for most of us to stay out of it and leave it to our

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-03-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 08.03.2018, 22:01 + schrieb Robie Basak: > I'd like to bring the release team's attention to this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat/+bug/1753169 > ... > if a decision needs to be made, that decision should probably be made > before Bionic's releas

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-03-12 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:01:32PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > I'd like to bring the release team's attention to this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat/+bug/1753169 > > This seems like a matter where people are getting quite personally > and emotionally involved, so I think

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-03-17 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, >I've added this to the TB agenda. I imagine it'll take quite a bit of >reading of the various references (I've added them to the agenda item) >so appreciate you may not be able to decide by tomorrow's meeting. just to give my quick maintainer point of view. 1) the security issues it has

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Robie, Gianfranco, Lacking quorum, there was no actual TB meeting the other week. However, as I noted on IRC, I also don't consider this a matter requiring the Technical Board's input. In the first instance, this falls within the purview of the archive team, and I'm happy for us to field it a

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-04-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > we still don't have a clean upgrade path from xchat to hexchat, at least for > configuration files. I don't give much weight to this reason since xchat wasn't in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Therefore, there is no upgrade problem. Thanks, Jere

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
n Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 06:01:38AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >An IRC client, in its default mode of operation, requires zero > >authentication of a remote server. The server must therefore be > >considered untrusted and potentially hostile. Even *with* > >authentication, a remote serv

Re: xchat and hexchat

2018-04-13 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello Steve and all, >Lacking quorum, there was no actual TB meeting the other week. However, as >I noted on IRC, I also don't consider this a matter requiring the Technical >Board's input. In the first instance, this falls within the purview of the >archive team, and I'm happy for us to field