Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use qemu-project.org domain name

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

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
> <anthony@codemonkey.ws>.  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 <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
> 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