[Bug 34004] New Account Request

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 02/10/11 11:14 AM, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:39:54AM -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Luc Verhaegen<libv at skynet.be>  wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Isn't libreoffice using fd.o?

They at least use wiki space there, though I think their main website
is elsewhere now.   But you're right, that's another excellent argument
why fd.o is *not* just X.Org, and we can't dictate to them and you need
to go talk to them, not us.   Of course, we told you this two months ago,
and gave you the mailing list to contact then.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System