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To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Corporate Contributors WAS: merging advocacy and
Date: 03 Dec 2004 14:09:39 -0500
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On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:18, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Robert, Josh, Elein, etc.:
>
> I do think this is important to settle. Right now, it's General Bits which
> sits square on the border between "contribution" and "external"; Next time it
> might be someone else. Sucks for Elein that it's your site we're talking
> about, but it helps us make some rules that we'll need again later.
>
> However, I think that we should take this over to -Advocacy. Even though
> this will mean a more chaotic discussion, it IS what the Advocacy list is
> for, and if we make decisions here without raising them there, we might as
> well kill that list.
>
> So I'll be laying things out for that list.
Agreed. And none of it should effect website completion so it's best to
take it off this list.
>
> > An example is Practical PostgreSQL. That book has been
> > online since the day it hit shelves, free for anyone to use.
> > But it isn't the same as say donating patches to ECPG or
> > PlPerl which gets directly injected into the community.
> > Practical PostgreSQL is a community resource, but it is
> > not community sponsored.
>
> On the other hand, PL/PHP is considered a "contribution" even though it is
> hosted at CMD's site.
>
I've spoken with Joshua before about this and I don't really see it as a
community contribution myself. I think the only reasons others do is
because of the other things that command prompt donates that are
contributions (plperl/servers/etc..)
Robert Treat
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