X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2020-02-27

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> 
> ## Items discussed
> 
> ITEM: Cloud hosting for freedesktop.org
> X.org is running out of money, and at the current rate we're losing money we'd
> need to close CI by May or June this year in order to keep operating. Google
> offered to hire someone to admin fd.o so long as they get to pick who it is,
> board votes to approve. Board also votes to approve sending out announcement
> asking for sponsors onto the mailing lists ASAP.
> ACTIONS: Daniel Vetter to draft announcement asking for sponsors onto mailing
> lists.
> STATUS: Pending

So this was what it was all about then. Money.

I knew there was something fishy when the mighty few of fd.o wanted to 
go down this path.

I had hoped that we would gain transparency and oversight on how fd.o 
was run. To me, and the gitlab conversion of radeonhd was another 
smashing example (one in a long row of sordid actions or... fortunate 
inactions?), there was no increase in transparency or oversight in the 
dealings of fd.o in the year or so that this change was decided.

How much was xorg burning through each year before fd.o?

When this fd.o merge thing was proposed to the xorg members, did we at 
all get told about this extra cost now falling onto the x.org 
foundation? Did we get told about the extent of these costs?

Pretty f-ing shameless stuff.

Luc Verhaegen.