I'm unclear where we are with this, but I've done the local forrest
work to get this committed.
As for it being an "ad" - any of the "growing number of competitors"
are welcome to get their books / reference guides added to the site
also. All it takes is a patch contribution and we'll get it added.
Note that I'm only proposing we add a link to the reference guide, a
free bit of documentation.
I plan to commit today barring any major objections. We can always
revise the site upon further discussion/patches.
Erik
On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Jan Høydahl / Cominvent wrote:
On 12. jan. 2010, at 16.27, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
I think it's good to link to outside publications, and it doesn't
seem like a
problem to me that it's a related product. News snippets linking
to magazine
articles (especially positive reviews early on) are common fare on
project
webpages.
I'm positive to pointing to commercial stuff from the site and
wiki, that's
gonna benefit the overall Lucene community.
But why front page, and why as an "ad" with an image? A more
neutral, still
prominent placement would be on a new "Commercial" page linked to
from the left
menu. Although it's an excellent ref.guide, it clearly is a
marketing instrument
for Lucid, one out of a growing number of competitors in this
field. There will
be a growing need for more references to other commercial distros,
plugins,
documentation and more, and such stuff should have a vendor neutral
home.
+1 for a text link from a new "Commercial" page.
-1 for image ad on front page -- (unless the ad is paid and tagged
as an ad)
Please note Apache has specific rules on commercial stuff. Books
are one thing, but "commercial" page is a different story.
