On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, David Greaves <[email protected]> wrote:
> cc'ed meego-dev as this may be of interest. Followup to meego-community
> please.
>
> Over the past few weeks a few of us who have been involved in the MeeGo
> community infrastructure have been trying to solve a problem relating to
> MeeGo Apps : apps.meego.com

Thanks David for bring this important issue to the community's
attention. I'm certain the community can solve this issue more quickly
and effectively than the LF.

> "The Linux Foundation have told us in private conversations that they will
> not permit apps.meego.com to be served from the  MeeGo.com infrastructure
> hosted by them. They do not have the resource at this time to provide a
> statement giving their reasons. We can not assess what other services may be
> impacted in the future."

This type of behavior is fundamentally anti-community. This shows the
Linux Foundation's complete disinterest in users and developers,
they're beholden to the corporate "sponsors" and donors who pay their
bills.

> In the meantime we have moved ahead to provide apps.formeego.org (thanks to
> Thomas for acquiring that domain - see
> https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20531). There are plans being worked
> on to setup infrastructure to host apps there - the community needs to
> decide how to manage that infrastructure and domain.

Shouldn't the same folks who do the Maemo forums and garage be
involved? They have experience in this sort of infrastructure.

> On a personal note I am very disappointed by the Linux Foundation's response
> to this situation. There has been no open discussion, the verbal reasons
> provided were vague (although, I must emphasise, I am not doubting that
> there are valid concerns given the nature of the legal framework in the US)
> and insufficient effort has been made to assist the community in resolving
> (or even understanding) this problem - as I mention, since we're not clear
> about what the reason is we have no idea what other services may be
> impacted.

I agree David and I must say I'm disappointed too, but I cannot say
I'm surprised.

Regards,

Jeremiah
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