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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: merging advocacy and "overview"
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:18:22 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102007412.2558.63.camel@camel>
References: <[email protected]>
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Marc, Robert,

> > > Not sure if I agree with a 'time limit' on this one ... there should
> > > be some sort of 'history' section ... if we are remembering a
> > > contribution, it should be remembered, not 'fade out over time' ...

Well, the main reason I wanted the 3-year limit is that I don't want to try to 
research what companies contributed code in 1989.   I expect that we'll be 
pretty casual about taking companies "off for expiration" -- if we ever do.

> > I think Marc has an interesting point. The other issue is what about
> > companies who may not sponsor a ton of code but troll the mailing lists?

No.  Why would we care?  Unless you have a different meaning for "troll" than 
I do?

> > Or provide major services like hosting? 

Yes.

> > Or secondary code like the .Net 
> > provider?

Yes, *especially* these.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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