Subject: Re: Corporate Contributors WAS: merging advocacy and
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
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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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