I think a commercial support section would be a great idea, but as
others have said, managing it can be tricky. Not all users know how to
analyze the list archives to find the best person to help them with a
specific problem, so this support page would help both the users and the
service
Charta is interested to be listed as experienced provider if gdal.org
will ever add info about commercial support.
Nevertheless, I think this item has to receive more attention,
considering at least:
* the license of GDAL. Using MIT license means being expecially open
to commercial usage.
Adding a support section like some other OSGeo projects is a good idea (in
my opinion). This is a way for people to use the project webpage to find
those who are most substantially contributing to the project and know the
most about GDAL/OGR.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:46 AM,
Folks,
This is a somewhat sticky area, which is why I started just with just the
self-registration mechanism on the OSGeo site in the past.
A scenario that I could support would be a section somewhat like the
postgis.net support list where being added to it needs to be voted on by
the PSC. My
As Frank wrote, this is a slippery issue. Personally I could be
comfortable with anything from self-registration to the highly
selective approach described by Frank. To me, the important issue is
making clear to a reader of the list what exactly the list means and
how to
Even,
I suspect most companies providing commercial support for GDAL are related
to one or more committers, so it might be reasonable to let the committers
to propose a company to be listed (by describing the support they can
provide) and probably call for a vote on it. (just my 2 cents)
Best
Even,
I am not yet a commiter on SVN, but I agree with Tamas that allowing any
commiters would be a great. I personally think listing supporting companies
with an opensource project is a great way to build more support and trust
in the project.
Thanks,
Blake
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:51 PM,
