[Bug 34004] New Account Request

[Corbin Simpson]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:25:21AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 02/10/11 07:07 AM, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Elections in which it was difficult to find enough people willing to
>> put in the time and deal with crap like this to fill a full slate of
>> candidates for the available seats.   (The initial deadline was extended
>> when there were only two candidates for 4 seats.)
>>
>> I don't see the X.Org board trying to stage a coup and take over freedesktop.org
>> though, no matter who gets elected.   There's a separate organization for that,
>> and we don't have the legal right to take their property away no matter what we
>> think about how they're managing it.
>
> So it is better to leave this current situation as is, and have a major
> part of the infrastructure that X.org and others depend on what i
> honestly cannot describe as "a organization"?

Well, after the outage a few years ago, we jokingly talked about
moving fd.o's stuff down to Corvallis, OR, where the Open Source Lab
could keep a closer eye on the machines. The ultimate reason for not
going down that route was that Portland was a better place as far as
having people who were actually involved with FreeDesktop nearby in
case of emergency.

This is starting to sound like the kind of thing that should
definitely involve the rest of the fd.o members. If you have serious
concerns about the quality of hosting that fd.o's property is
receiving, then not just X.org, but all fd.o members need to be in
this discussion.

~ C.

-- 
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes

Corbin Simpson
<MostAwesomeDude at gmail.com>