Hi Niclas, have to admit that I didn't quite understand your suggestion.
Chris Am 27.01.20, 10:01 schrieb "Niclas Hedhman" <nic...@hedhman.org>: My two cents; you could recommend that companies that has commercial support to use a unique name on their offering/landing page that gets picked up by search engines and let the general public know what that word is... When I personally am looking for this for project Foo, then "foo -site: apache.org" is the starting point. And that could be smoother. Cheers On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 16:28 Julian Feinauer <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de> wrote: > Hes, but as I understand it you are already doing that, so this should > yield result soon : ) > > Am 27.01.20, 09:24 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: > > Yeah ... > > not sure this is not too much ... we should in general have this > checked if such a page would be in line with the ASF bylaws. > > Chris > > Am 27.01.20, 08:21 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" < > j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: > > Hi, > > I think we should list the companies with a short outline like, > e.g. postgres does it here: > https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/europe/ > > For codecentric one could write (I see no problem): > PLC4X was initially started as an internal project at codecentric > and open soure to the ASF. Christofer Dutz, the initiatior of PLC4X helps > in his daytime job clients with the implementation of Drivers and blab la > blab la > > And for us we could / would write something similar: > The beautiful, wise, intelligent and charismatic Julian and his > blalbalblablalbal > > I think you get the point? : ) > > Julian > > Am 27.01.20, 08:17 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" < > christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: > > Hi Julian, > > I think having links to commercial support offerings is a > pretty important thing for us to have. > If we have to allow anyone be listed there (even if they don't > contribute to the project) well that will be "the toad we have to swallow" > (Don't know how to translate this German saying to English). > > Right now I see the industries worries of not being able to > get commercial support as being one of the most problematic things ... that > was why I put the "commercial support" thing on our landing page. > > Would it be possible to mark companies who employ committers > of the project (but not which ones) with a "*" and an explanation? > > Chris > > > > Am 27.01.20, 08:10 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" < > j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: > > Hey, > > @Christofer Dutz you can also a general discuss about > whether or not we should do that. > I am mostly concerned with clear rules, if we do it. > But, in the end, its not granted, lets discuss it and if > we cant get an agreement decide it. > > Julian > > Am 27.01.20, 06:55 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" < > christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: > > Hi Justin, > > So in general it would be OK to have a list of links > to companies plc4x support pages? > > I don't care about seeing the ties between persons and > companies. > > Just not happy to have any company listed. > > Chris > ________________________________ > Von: Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > Gesendet: Montag, 27. Januar 2020 01:45 > An: dev@plc4x.apache.org <dev@plc4x.apache.org> > Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] Guideline for "professional > support" Mentioning on Homepage > > Hi, > > > as Lukas just opened up a discussion about > mentioning commercial support on the (new) PLC4X Homepage. > > One Example where this is done is Apache Druid ( > https://druid.apache.org/community/ see Getting Help). > > I dislike the Druid example as it shows who the > committers are working for, that should not matter. Individuals contribute > to Apache projects not companies. Having links to those companies (next to > the committer name) when they may or may not be ASF sponsors is even worse. > > Re commercial supped listing them is OK as long as all > that ask are listed and it not being seen as promoting or suggesting one > over another. It must be vendor neutral. > > Thanks, > Justin > > > > > > > > > > >