[XESAM] Moving business elsewhere?

[Jos van den Oever]

2007/6/11, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
> 2007/6/10, Jos van den Oever <jvdoever at gmail.com>:
>
> > 2007/6/10, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
> > > 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 xesam at freedesktop.org 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 http://xesam.org and we can have hosting there as well.
> > > Whether or not we will actually use xesam.org 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 xesam.org and
> > > xesam.freedesktop.org.
> > >
> > > 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 xesam.freedesktop.org namespace and just use
> xesam.org for hosting right now. It would be required that all http queries
> on xesam.freedesktoo.org was forwarded to xesam.org, 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.

Cheers,
Jos