Hi Jukka, On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:20 AM jratike80 < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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- > Thanks for the explanation. I agree that we can't fairly tell new people that they may have to pay for help without showing them who they may hire. -- Sean Gillies
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