Beyond cost vs cost-plus contracts I wonder if part of it might be that the X-37 was designed by qualified engineers at Boeing while Starliner was co-designed with members of the US Congress.
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) offers managed and unmanaged hosting to open source projects. They even have IBM Z and POWER10 hosting if you're into that sort of thing.
This has been brought up with freedesktop and they handwaved it away. They claim they want to DIY with donation money but they don't have a donation mechanism and I suspect they don't know how much work just handling money is.
> This has been brought up with freedesktop and they handwaved it away. They claim they want to DIY with donation money
You are making all of this sound way more definitive than the ticket. The donation money approach is the personal opinion of the sysadmin. The OSUOSL is brought up, some explanations are added that make it more attractive and remove some doubts, and beyond that it's waiting for the board to decide what's next.
[1] https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325466-i-wrote-the-first-...
[2] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/voodoo5-6000.c3536
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