On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:49 AM J.B. Nicholson <j...@forestfield.org> wrote: > gnu.tools' current domain registrar (namecheap.com)[1] is not the same as > gnu.org's > current domain registrar[2] (gandi.net). gnu.tools' owner is not publicly > listed in > whois but gnu.org's organizational owner is publicly listed in whois. If I > were keen > to agree to Courtès' proposal I'd wonder why the gnu.tools domain exists, if > GNU > needs a wiki for the project why not host that wiki on wiki.gnu.org, and > where one > could get official word from the GNU Project leader (which remains rms) on > which > domains are owned by the GNU Project (certainly one would expect gnu.org to > be in > that set of domains but not necessarily gnu.tools).
The gnu.tools domain is not owned by the GNU Project. The domain is setup by GNU Maintainers for other GNU Maintainers. I helped setup wiki.gnu.tools. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. I am a GNU Maintainer for the GNU C Library. I have been working on the GNU C Library project for 17 years. I am one of the trustees of the GNU Toolchain Fund, a Working Together Fund with the FSF. When an informal poll was taken on the private internal mailing list of the GNU Project over a dozen maintainers requested a wiki. Such a wiki was not provided, so myself and other GNU Maintainers took it upon ourselves to build a wiki we would want to use. The wiki is free to use for all GNU Maintainers. I would like to open the wiki up further for others to use, but for now we're taking small steps. > These differences suggest to me that one should be wary of what one finds on > gnu.tools. Privacy of whois information is important to avoid abuse. Cheers, Carlos.
