<div dir="ltr">Even,<div><br></div><div>I suspect most companies providing commercial support for GDAL are related to one or more committers, so it might be reasonable to let the committers to propose a company to be listed (by describing the support they can provide) and probably call for a vote on it. (just my 2 cents)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Tamas</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-20 22:02 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm wondering if there would be a concensus and interest to add a "Commercial<br>
support" section on <a href="http://gdal.org" target="_blank">gdal.org</a>. A number of OSGeo projects have such page (see<br>
[1]), so that wouldn't be completely awkward to have one for GDAL as well.<br>
<br>
The OSGeo Service provider database reference 137 companies/individuals that<br>
have registered themselves as providing GDAL support ([2]) ! Pretty cool, but<br>
I'm wondering how a user not familiar with the project could effectively use<br>
that list to identify core contributors from casual advanced users.<br>
<br>
If we agree for adding a "Commercial support" section, the question is : on<br>
which criteria do we accept an organization/individual to be listed in the<br>
section ? We would want them to be as most objective and non debatable as<br>
possible.<br>
A simple criterion could be anyone who has commit rights (in trunk, not just<br>
in a sandbox or customer branch). There are currently 56 SVN committers. That<br>
could be strengthened with a minimum number of commits/lines changed during a<br>
period, but we perhaps don't need that level of complexity.<br>
We could possibly also extend that to entities that provide public support to<br>
users through gdal-dev or other public forums (gis.stackexchange, others?).<br>
Other suggestions ?<br>
<br>
Should we distinguish several categories of actors ?<br>
- QGIS makes a division between "Core contributors" vs "Contributors".<br>
GeoServer has "Core contributors", "Experienced providers" and "Additional<br>
services" (the last one is populated on service provider request).<br>
- On the other side, deegree, Geomoose or Geotools simply list them in a<br>
single section.<br>
The answer likely depends on the number of organizations that would be listed<br>
(I guess below 10 we don't need much structure). The difficulty here would be to<br>
establish the categories and criteria.<br>
<br>
So, could entities interested in being listed reply to this email so we can<br>
have a better idea of how many would be listed, and if we need more stricter<br>
criteria or several categories ?<br>
As far as I'm concerned, Spatialys would be interested.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Even<br>
<br>
[1] Non exhaustive list of OSGeo projects with a commercial support section :<br>
<a href="http://geoserver.org/support/" target="_blank">http://geoserver.org/support/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.geomoose.org/info/commercial_support.html" target="_blank">http://www.geomoose.org/info/commercial_support.html</a><br>
<a href="http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/support.html" target="_blank">http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/support.html</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/GettingSupport" target="_blank">http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/GettingSupport</a><br>
<a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html</a><br>
<br>
[2] OSGeo Service Provider catalog with entities declaring GDAL expertise :<br>
<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_TECH[]=00013" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_TECH[]=00013</a><br>
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