Even, I suspect most companies providing commercial support for GDAL are related to one or more committers, so it might be reasonable to let the committers to propose a company to be listed (by describing the support they can provide) and probably call for a vote on it. (just my 2 cents)
Best regards, Tamas 2014-08-20 22:02 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there would be a concensus and interest to add a > "Commercial > support" section on gdal.org. A number of OSGeo projects have such page > (see > [1]), so that wouldn't be completely awkward to have one for GDAL as well. > > The OSGeo Service provider database reference 137 companies/individuals > that > have registered themselves as providing GDAL support ([2]) ! Pretty cool, > but > I'm wondering how a user not familiar with the project could effectively > use > that list to identify core contributors from casual advanced users. > > If we agree for adding a "Commercial support" section, the question is : on > which criteria do we accept an organization/individual to be listed in the > section ? We would want them to be as most objective and non debatable as > possible. > A simple criterion could be anyone who has commit rights (in trunk, not > just > in a sandbox or customer branch). There are currently 56 SVN committers. > That > could be strengthened with a minimum number of commits/lines changed > during a > period, but we perhaps don't need that level of complexity. > We could possibly also extend that to entities that provide public support > to > users through gdal-dev or other public forums (gis.stackexchange, others?). > Other suggestions ? > > Should we distinguish several categories of actors ? > - QGIS makes a division between "Core contributors" vs "Contributors". > GeoServer has "Core contributors", "Experienced providers" and "Additional > services" (the last one is populated on service provider request). > - On the other side, deegree, Geomoose or Geotools simply list them in a > single section. > The answer likely depends on the number of organizations that would be > listed > (I guess below 10 we don't need much structure). The difficulty here would > be to > establish the categories and criteria. > > So, could entities interested in being listed reply to this email so we can > have a better idea of how many would be listed, and if we need more > stricter > criteria or several categories ? > As far as I'm concerned, Spatialys would be interested. > > Best regards, > > Even > > [1] Non exhaustive list of OSGeo projects with a commercial support > section : > http://geoserver.org/support/ > http://www.geomoose.org/info/commercial_support.html > http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/support.html > http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/GettingSupport > http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html > > [2] OSGeo Service Provider catalog with entities declaring GDAL expertise : > http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_TECH[]=00013 > > -- > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > http://www.spatialys.com > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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