Grant, Eric, thanks for clarifying; being a newbie to ASF I don't know all rules. Understand that commercial page is not an option, and given the exception for documentation, I change my "vote" to +0 -- as if my vote ever counted :-)
Jan On 22. jan. 2010, at 18.39, Erik Hatcher wrote: > 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. >
