From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUXZl-0003NB-Bf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 03:56:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUXZh-0002z1-9A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 03:55:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUXZh-0002yw-17 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 03:55:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:55:47 +0200 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20131011075547.GA27789@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> References: <1381397957-12181-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com> <5256E706.306@weilnetz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5256E706.306@weilnetz.de> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use qemu-project.org domain name List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Weil On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:42:30PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote: > 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 > > . 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 > > --- > > 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. I have no contact with the current owner of qemu.org and therefore don't know if they are willing to transfer it. Anthony: Any idea? Stefan