Giving credit to sponsors?

2007-01-12 Thread Otis Gospodnetic 
Hi,

Are there existing practices for giving credit to companies that sponsor 
development of Solr (or Nutch or Lucene or ...) by paying 
consultants/developers to work on Solr (or Nutch or ...) and contribute their 
work back to ASF?

If there are no existing practices, any suggestions?  The first and easiest 
thing that comes to my mind is the creation of the Sponsors page on the Wiki 
to hold information about all sponsors, perhaps list who did what work, and 
such.  Any better ideas?

Thanks,
Otis

Re: Giving credit to sponsors?

2007-01-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz 

On 1/12/07, Otis Gospodnetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


...Are there existing practices for giving credit to companies that sponsor 
development of Solr..


I don't think we have something like that yet. Cocoon 2.1.x has a
CREDITS.txt file for listing such contributions:

 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/BRANCH_2_1_X/CREDITS.txt

I'm thinking of the Community Credits part a the top, the rest is
covered by our NOTICE.txt file.

Putting this stuff besides the LICENCE.txt and NOTICE.txt files makes
sense IMHO, as this is similar to licence and software credits info.
The website could say look at the CREDITS.txt file with a link to
the SVN version like above.

-Bertrand