GDAL - Dev mailing list wrote > Hi Even, > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:56 AM Even Rouault <
> even.rouault@ > > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please find https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3473 which proposes to >> list >> service providers offering GDAL related services on the GDAL website. As >> mentioned in the RFC, this is a straightfoward port of the equivalent >> adopted >> RFC of the Mapserver project. >> >> Even >> > > I'd like to hear more about the Mapserver project service provider list. > Does it work? Is it kept up to date or does it get stale? Does the > community find that it effectively steers $$ to consultants that fix bugs > and maintain the project? With the difference in image/logo sizes, is the > intent to make this look a bit like a conference sponsor page? > > -- > Sean Gillies Hi, Maybe the number of new potential customers searching for consultants to do Mapserver development is not so huge at the moment and the old ones know their contacts already. However, I feel that the service provider list does work for the Geoserver project. Probably mostly not so that users start by browsing the list and pick a contractor. It is rather so that core Geoserver developers know that often there is a minimal chance that some bug will be fixed or some feature request will be implemented just because there is an open ticket about that. Then they can inform the user about the reasonable alternatives like in this example that I picked from a mailing list: "That does not mean we cannot work around a deficiency in a rogue server, but be prepared to issue your PR or fund development though commercial services: http://geoserver.org/support/"; For my mind that is also fair for the users and gives more hope than the comment on the OSSIM site, that is otherwise my absolute favorite: "We encourage users to use the software as-is or become an active contributor." -Jukka Rahkonen- -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/GDAL-Dev-f3742093.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
