Yes but mostly for Visual-Designer. If you want create a page with all OSS tools for NH there is no problem. The WIKI is open.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Jason Dentler <[email protected]>wrote: > We don't have one. Isn't this thread about adding a list > of NHibernate-related (commercial) tools to NHForge? > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Which is the page of the tools ? >> >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Jason Dentler <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Haven't we crossed this bridge already? We have a book page. No matter >>> how (very very very) little the hourly rate may be for authors, it's still a >>> commercial product. >>> >>> Having said that, if someone were to write a significant NHibernate eBook >>> and distribute it for free, I'd still expect to find it on the book page. >>> >>> By this same logic, I think the "significant" open source tools like FNH >>> should be included in any list of add-on tools. In my mind, the distinction >>> between open source / non-profit and for-profit is arbitrary. >>> >>> My two cents >>> - Jason >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hopefully we can have all opinions of all vendors here... >>>> >>>> Perhaps we (NH team) are worried about something that for you (vendors) >>>> is not a problem. >>>> >>>> In practice we can give you a space in NH-Forge, you can blog a review >>>> of your product and so on but what you can't do is start a commercial war >>>> and involve us. >>>> >>>> If you can come in a sort of agreement, we are open to hear proposal >>>> about how give more visibility to commercial products inside >>>> www.nhforge.org >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, sbohlen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> NOTE: This is a continuation of a discussion branch that began in this >>>>> thread of the NHUSERS group: >>>>> >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers/browse_thread/thread/166cd3b0e77c9e35/056321a3ec570d3b >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> >>>>> Frans: >>>>> >>>>> Uh....I'm honestly a bit confused by your response as I think we're >>>>> going to have to declare that we seem to be "in violent agreement" on >>>>> (nearly) all of these points. >>>>> >>>>> From reading your comments, my concerns appear to be yours as well: I >>>>> too am interested in an area of NHForge that can assist adopters of NH >>>>> in finding commercial tools to improve their "NH experience" but in >>>>> such a way that the NHForge site itself (and by extension the NH team) >>>>> isn't directly involved in endorsing, ranking, commenting, or >>>>> otherwise doing anything that would make it appear as if one vendor or >>>>> tool was better/worse than any other vendor/tool (e.g., NH is able to >>>>> maintain its neutrality). >>>>> >>>>> My list of 'principles' that I tried to enumerate in my post seemed >>>>> (to me, at least) a reasonable set of guidelines to enable us to >>>>> achieve exactly those goals (providing visibility for such offerings >>>>> while maintaining neutrality). I think remaining neutral is 'good >>>>> practice' in re: NH's relation with commercial tools/projects, but >>>>> frankly I think its equally good practice in re: NH's relation with >>>>> open-source and/or free tools/projects as well (e.g., I think it >>>>> equally inappropriate for NH to be 'recommending' one OSS tool over >>>>> another -- just as with commercial offerings). >>>>> >>>>> My suggestion was to find a way to list such products/vendors without >>>>> appearing to 'endorse' or 'rank' them in any manner. >>>>> >>>>> I don't think I said (and I certainly didn't mean to inadvertently >>>>> imply) that there is no place in the NH ecosystem for commercial >>>>> offerings -- quite the reverse, in fact. I was merely trying to >>>>> suggest that whatever manner is decided upon to attempt to increase >>>>> 'visibility' of such things on the NHForge site be accomplished in >>>>> such a way that NH's neutrality towards any of these offerings remain >>>>> intact. >>>>> >>>>> I certainly recognize that one level of such imperfect neutrality will >>>>> be instantly sacrificed merely by listing a product/vendor on the >>>>> NHForge site, but that's why I indicated that it needed to be very >>>>> clear to any vendor HOW to get their product listed should they want >>>>> to do so (e.g., so that it wasn't made to appear that the listed >>>>> vendors/products were in any way part of an "elite club" that over >>>>> vendors were unable to 'join'). >>>>> >>>>> I hope this serves to clarify the intent of my comments (even if it >>>>> appears I wasn't entirely clear in my prior content). >>>>> >>>>> -Steve B. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Fabio Maulo >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Fabio Maulo >> >> > -- Fabio Maulo
