X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2020-02-27

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:39:57AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 1:37 AM Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Seriously no.
> 
> The _entire_ growth here happened under the X.org's boards overwatch,
> roughly in the past year. fd.o had a budget of roughly zero (including
> when we started gitlab.fd.o) with quite considerable financial
> reserves.

Oh, ok, so it is all the sound financial decisions of the board of the 
last year?

That's good to hear with the elections this close, whenever they happen.

Luc Verhaegen.