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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use qemu-project.org domain name
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Stefan Weil |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use qemu-project.org domain name |
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Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:42:30 +0200 |
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Am 10.10.2013 11:39, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> qemu.org is held by a third-party and no core community contributor has
> access to the DNS configuration. This leaves the website exposed to
> outages due to DNS issues or IP address changes. For example, if the
> web server IP address needs to change we cannot guarantee qemu.org will
> point to it!
>
> The newer qemu-project.org domain name is owned by Anthony Liguori
> <address@hidden>. You can confirm this by querying the whois
> information. Also note that the #qemu IRC channel topic already
> references qemu-project.org.
>
> Short of having a dedicated legal entity to hold the domain name on
> behalf of the community, qemu-project.org seems like the safest bet.
>
> Let's replace references to qemu.org with qemu-project.org.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
> This sprang from another email thread where qemu.org URLs were posted. I
> realized that there are still many references in the source tree.
>
I don't like this change. We should strive to get a transfer of qemu.org
from the current owner to some respected legal entity in the open source
domain,
for example FSFE or FSF.
Regards,
Stefan