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

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 11.10.2013 09:55, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> 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
>>> <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.
> 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

Hi Stefan,

I had contacted the owner in the past when there were IP changes or DNS
problems and always had the impression that he was helpful. Therefore I
have sent a mail to him now, too, and asked him whether he would be
willing to transfer the ownership of qemu.org to an organisation. I have
also written to the FSFE and are waiting for both answers now.

I currently see no urgent need for the patch and strongly suggest to
delay it for the next 4 weeks or maybe until end of October. If we don't
get a positive answer until some deadline, we still can apply the patch
then.

A new domain which is again privately owned is a bad solution, even if
the owner is a very active QEMU developer. If we have to look for a new
domain name to replace qemu.org, I expect that the new name must be
owned by an organisation like the FSF or FSFE.

Don't forget that there are lots of other places which refer to
qemu.org, so choosing a new domain name would always be the second best
solution, and we should first try hard to get the best solution!

Regards,
Stefan