[Bug 34004] New Account Request

[Luc Verhaegen]

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"?

Luc Verhaegen