> Knowing what companies are investing in a given area, allows users & > contributors know who to contact to move their own contributions faster and > gives companies the ability to accept user suggestions.
I am not a purist by any stretch, but I don't see this benefiting even the prospective contributor and it's at the expense of community development. > Gives recognition to the companies (or individuals) who are investing in > Airflow. > This in the long term adds value to the project brand itself as it’s > easy to demonstrate who is using/contributing to the project. Some associations might add, some might detract. But it seems to me that corporations already have little trouble in advertising their relationships with open source projects when they want to. I don't know what exists today, but one thing I would consider positive is making sure there's good consensus/guidance on surfacing individuals' affiliations (when they want to, of course) For example, some people might think it's taboo to telegraph it even though they're not concealing it. > So my question is: Have you seen this done in a project? If yes, how they > do it? Would you support this? No, I wouldn't personally support anything that encouraged users/contributors to expedite their contributions by finding some corporate association and working outside the normal community channels. > I want to clarify that I understand that Open Source is about the > individuals and not the companies, however I also see the need for > transparency for the sake of project agility. I don't follow the agility part. If a corporation is so engaged that they'd be able to expedite something, why wouldn't they have the same attention on the community channels? To be frank this strikes me as more for the benefit for companies that don't like community development than the communities themselves. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
