2007/6/11, Jos van den Oever <<a href="mailto:jvdoever@gmail.com">jvdoever@gmail.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2007/6/11, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com">mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com</a>>: > 2007/6/10, Jos van den Oever <<a href="mailto:jvdoever@gmail.com">jvdoever@gmail.com</a>>: > > > 2007/6/10, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com">mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com</a>>: > > > Hi Xesames and xdg subscribers, > > > > > > Our project creation request[1] has been stalled for almost four months > now. > > > I really don't think we can keep on abusing the xdg list anymore, and as > it > > > appears we are not going to get a <a href="mailto:xesam@freedesktop.org">xesam@freedesktop.org </a> list I think we > have > > > to move our business elsewhere if something doesn't happen really soon > (like > > > in the coming week). > > > > > > We have multiple other needs like a shared version control system, a > > > website, a wiki, and a bug tracker. > > > > > > I have bought <a href="http://xesam.org">http://xesam.org</a> and we can have hosting there as well. > > > Whether or not we will actually use <a href="http://xesam.org">xesam.org</a> as the host or just as a > link > > > is open for discussion. Google groups have grown popular recently and > > > Canonicals Launchpad is not a bad product either. > > > > > > I don't know if this should be reflected in our namespacing. We have > dbus > > > paths and xml namespaces to think about. I would not like to point an > xml > > > namespace at some place where we cannot put something, on the other hand > I > > > would hate to strip the org.freedesktop from our dbus paths, I would > hate it > > > even more if we used intermixed namespacing of <a href="http://xesam.org">xesam.org</a> and > > > <a href="http://xesam.freedesktop.org">xesam.freedesktop.org</a>. > > > > > > Anyways, comments welcome. A swift resultion of bug 10114 is even more > > > welcome. > > > > I really think we should escalate this. fd.o is the place for this > > stuff. If they are so *** lame, somebody should have his butt kicked. > > How hard is it to set up a mailinglist  + svn? > > Let's not make this a shouting contest :-) > > I don't think that anyone find it hard to create the new project, but just > that everyone is tied on all fronts. That just doesn't cut it for the > various related projects that have started to block on this of course. We > need a resolution, and we need it fast. > > Maybe we can keep everything in <a href="http://xesam.freedesktop.org">xesam.freedesktop.org </a> namespace and just use > <a href="http://xesam.org">xesam.org</a> for hosting right now. It would be required that all http queries > on <a href="http://xesam.freedesktoo.org">xesam.freedesktoo.org</a> was forwarded to <a href="http://xesam.org">xesam.org</a>, but that is probably > just as time-consuming as creating the xesam project in the first place... If we can get a DNS entry that points xesam.fd.o to x.o, we're done too. Then we're our own boss, but profit from the fd.o namespace.</blockquote><div> Given the response time of the fdo administration, I actually think this is the preferred solution. Cheers, Mikkel </div> </div>