-1 While (1) is no longer an issue (c'mon, it wasn't a real issue when the vendor page was first created!), (2) is still true.
And the main things I disagree with is that criteria of "support" vs. support should be committer status of one of the company employees. There should definitely be some (more or less strict) "lameness" review of each submission, but making it elitist just doesn't make sense. Say for instance someone has a company that does a training course on a number of Jakarta projects. None of the course instructors are Jakarta committers, but they still educate the world about OpenSource software and make whatever money they can while serving the community in their own way. Is it that bad to list them on the vendor page? Andrus Adamchik > The original intent of the vendors.xml page was: > > 1. Because I got sick of hearing people say "Jakarta projects are not > supported" and wanted a page to send people to during presentations. > > 2. So a certain unnamed committer would not feel the need to spam the > lists > (because I though if he got away with it, others would start doing it > and then I'd get lists full of consultancy spam). > > Now that Open Source is no longer a commercial cussword and I doubt even > an economic turnaround will kill the momentum, I think that the policy > for that page ought to be "just have one of the committers you employ on > the Jakarta projects you support make the change". Thus tightening it > from people who "support" Jakarta projects to people who support Jakarta > projects. > > Thoughts/Objections? > > -Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
