From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Subject: Re: Corporate Contributors WAS: merging advocacy and "overview"
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:18:16 -0800
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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.

> 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.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco