On May 22, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013, at 03:01 PM, Kelcey Jamison Damage wrote: >> I agree with Noah, >> >> We have to take the good with the bad otherwise we are inadvertently >> endorsing specific works as an organization. > > I'd rather point to none than have to point to everything that's slung > out with "CloudStack" in the title. Like I said - I used to review > these, and there's a lot, lot, lot of subpar books out there. > > In the Solr example, I looked - in each case, the authors have either > been involved in Solr directly or have extensive histories with Solr. > And Solr only points to two books, when > there are actually quite a few other Solr books on Amazon. > > Looking at other Apache projects, I'm not seeing a lot of projects that > point to books written about them. I agree with Joe. These days it's super easy to publish anything. Since we are working via consensus, at a minimum we could have a quick review of the book and do a VOTE thread before putting on our page. -sebastien > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > [email protected] > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
