I agree with Divji here and to be more pointed. I worry that if we go down the path of adding vendors to a list it comes off as supporting their product, not to mention could be a huge security risk for novice users. I would rather this be a callout to other purely open source tooling, such as cruise control.
Divji brings up good question 1. What value does additional of this page bring to the users of Apache Kafka? I think the community would be a better service to have a more synchronous line of communication such as Slack/Discord and we call that out here. It would be more inline with other major open source projects. --- Kenneth Eversole On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:30 AM Divij Vaidya <divijvaidy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see a need for this. What additional information does this provide > over what can be found via a quick google search? > > My primary concern is that we are getting in the business of listing > vendors in the project site which brings it's own complications without > adding much additional value for users. In the spirit of being vendor > neutral, I would try to avoid this as much as possible. > > So, my question to you is: > 1. What value does additional of this page bring to the users of Apache > Kafka? > 2. When a new PR is submitted to add a vendor, what criteria do we have to > decide whether to add them or not? If we keep a blanket criteria of > accepting all PRs, then we may end up in a situation where the llink > redirects to a phishing page or nefarious website. Hence, we might have to > at least perform some basic due diligence which adds overhead to the > resources of the community. > > -- > Divij Vaidya > > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM fpapon <fpa...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > After starting a first thread on this topic ( > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/kkox33rhtjcdr5zztq3lzj7c5s7k9wsr), I > > would like to propose a PR: > > > > https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/577 > > > > The purpose of this proposal is to help users to find support for sla, > > training, consulting...whatever that is not provide by the community as, > > like we can already see in many ASF projects, no commercial support is > > provided by the foundation. I think it could help with the adoption and > the > > growth of the project because the users > > need commercial support for production issues. > > > > If the community is agree about this idea and want to move forward, I > just > > add one company in the PR but everybody can add some by providing a new > PR > > to complete the list. If people want me to add other you can reply to > this > > thread because it will be better to have several company at the first > > publication of the page. > > > > Just provide the company-name and a short description of the service > offer > > around Apache Kafka. The information must be factual and informational in > > nature and not be a marketing statement. > > > > regards, > > > > François > > > > > > >
