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

[Markus Armbruster]

Stefan Weil <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Let's not reject imperfect solutions to real problems we can have now in
favor of more perfect solutions we might be able to get some day.

The real problem is that qemu.org is unreliable (see Stefan's first
paragraph).

Switching to qemu-project.org improves life *now*.  It doesn't get
qemu.org fixed, and that's the imperfect part, but it also doesn't make
fixing qemu.org any harder.  We can always switch back.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>