[Bug 34004] New Account Request

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:44:05PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:02:56PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:47:25AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > > If you actually wanted to find out, you could go ask someone,
> > > 
> > > First the following question needs to be answered: who owns (not pw0wn, 
> > > we found that out already) these machines, who is paying for their 
> > > power/net?
> > > 
> > > The X.org Foundation?
> > 
> > freedesktop.org owns the *.fd.o machines, which have been paid for by
> > donations from generous sponsors (including Google and Intel), and the
> > hosting is provided free of charge by the Computer Science department at
> > Portland State University.
> > 
> > The three Sun machines (expo.x.org and friends) at MIT were donated by
> > Sun to MIT (or something to that effect - the end result is that we
> > can't really move them), and the hosting bill is paid for by the X.Org
> > Foundation.
> > 
> > Most of this has been discussed in past Foundation board meetings.
> 
> So nobody really owns them, noone is accountable for them, and noone is 
> really accountable for the software projects on them?
> 
> Seems like this explains quite a lot of the admin happenings, both 
> current and past.
> 
> Luc Verhaegen.

It seems that a useful and representative X.org board is needed, and 
that their primary responsibility should be the funding and maintenance 
of dependable infrastructure for the free software projects on both 
x.org and fd.o.

Hey, what do you know, there are elections coming up.

Luc Verhaegen.