On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 17:00, Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg Stein wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:17:39 -0400: >> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:42, Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> wrote: >> >... >> > As the page stands now, the "professionally supported and certified" is >> > just lots of words that add nothing over "maintained by". And >> > information-freeness is Bad. >> >> I disagree on this one. "Maintained by Jeremy Whitlock" says something >> *very* different from "professionally supported by X". >> > > What does it add over going to the maintainer's page and seeing if > they're doing this as a hobby or as a business plan? > > For example, if I were to produce binaries for the public, what difference > would it make whether or not I labeled them as "professionally supported > and certified"?
For a given platform, if there are several providers, and I'm *looking* for support, then having that on the set of links tells me where to go. If I'm simply downloading a tarball, then any link will do. If you want to characterize your hobbyist tarball as "professionally supported", then that would be fine, and we should do it. I can certainly imagine some folks may be interested in a little side/support income. And so we can list that, and let the user/customer decide which person/organization would work best for their support needs. Cheers, -g
