Hi Tom, On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Tom Boutell <[email protected]> wrote: > In general, I think visibility for developers and their companies > should be higher. It doesn't cost the Symfony project anything to help > that happen.
While I agree with you on this point, I don't agree that choosing plugin prefixes unique to your company are the solution. As I said before, plugins are a community effort and thus should be community driven. If other developers join your team, why should they develop a plugin that is published in the name of your company? Such an attitude only weakens collaboration. A different and better approach would be to honor these companies on the page of the plugin. Just as the authors are presented right now, the companies could be presented together with a short description and a link to the company website. If, at last, your plugin is just a way of showcasing your company and you do not want other developers to join the team, you really should not publish it on the symfony homepage. However your motivations, it will always be a risk for others to use plugins maintained by one single company only. As soon as the company moves to other goals or has no time to fix bugs or develop new features, plugin development will be condemned to stagnate. Worst of all, the community will not even be able to fix this. If the latter is the case for you, I suggest that you remove your plugins from the official plugins page and set up a custom plugin page on the website of your company. This will be much more effective to demonstrate your company's activities. Other developers using your plugin, though, will clearly know that they now are dependent on you. Bernhard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
