On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 17:00, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:17:39 -0400:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:42, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>> >...
>> > As the page stands now, the "professionally supported and certified" is
>> > just lots of words that add nothing over "maintained by". And
>> > information-freeness is Bad.
>>
>> I disagree on this one. "Maintained by Jeremy Whitlock" says something
>> *very* different from "professionally supported by X".
>>
>
> What does it add over going to the maintainer's page and seeing if
> they're doing this as a hobby or as a business plan?
>
> For example, if I were to produce binaries for the public, what difference
> would it make whether or not I labeled them as "professionally supported
> and certified"?
For a given platform, if there are several providers, and I'm
*looking* for support, then having that on the set of links tells me
where to go. If I'm simply downloading a tarball, then any link will
do.
If you want to characterize your hobbyist tarball as "professionally
supported", then that would be fine, and we should do it. I can
certainly imagine some folks may be interested in a little
side/support income. And so we can list that, and let the
user/customer decide which person/organization would work best for
their support needs.
Cheers,
-g
Received on 2010-10-30 07:21:02 CEST