rmannibucau commented on PR #577: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/577#issuecomment-1884622256
@mimaison well I wouldn't say red flags but I fully understand the surprise on kafka side if it was never discussed on/offline first - we had the same debate on TomEE side years ago. But it is not uncommon at apache to have such a page, even with a single company or even with no company and request for companies: * https://hop.apache.org/community/commercial/ (0) * https://struts.apache.org/commercial-support.html (1) * https://directory.apache.org/commercial-support.html (1) * https://superset.apache.org/community (direct link to the company behind - this one is more surprising for me since instead of encouraging the "registration" of vendors it hides it somehow but guess it is a small clumsiness) * https://tomee.apache.org/commercial-support.html (2) * https://plc4x.apache.org/users/commercial-support.html (2) * https://camel.apache.org/community/support/ * https://openmeetings.apache.org/commercial-support.html * https://guacamole.apache.org/support/ * https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP2/Distributions+and+Commercial+Support * https://activemq.apache.org/support * https://netbeans.apache.org/front/main/help/commercial-support/ * https://royale.apache.org/royale-commercial-support/ * (way more but guess you got the idea) To give an example of the "rationale behind" please have a look to https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/8852 issue. An important point to take into consideration is that several products - and I think Kafka is exactly there - wouldn't live without external support (it is true for most broker or server) so it is guaranteeing its community and helping its user base to do this kind of page - and trust me, ~5 years ago I didn't understand that as well as today so I say it very humbly. So overall, due to kafka adoption it can only be good to get such a page IMHO but I agree that if you feel it is not straight forward and it must be discussed more deeply cause Kafka wants to write its own content, a thread sounds the way to move it forward and a core commiter should then probably take the leadership on that "doc" track and this pr marked as pending while this work is done. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@kafka.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
