Hello SVN development community, Yesterday, a sales person from a company which I will not name here sent us an email message that I will quote, below.
There's nothing wrong with companies selling the services of contributors. However, this email message claims that the 'only' way that an issue is going to get addressed is by paying them $25K for a support contract. If there were true, and I don't believe it for a moment, it would be a serious community problem from an ASF standpoint. Since I don't believe it's true, on the other hand, I'm sending this along in the hopes that you will take the opportunity to clarify to the user community that the Subversion development community is not a captive of any particular commercial organization. I would be happy to provide the entire message to the PMC. Best Regards, Benson Margulies Member, ASF Quote from email: I'd think the point here is that your "only" practical route to getting a fix for the first issue would be a support contract with us. Whilst we can't make guarantees about specific functionality or solutions, bug buddy would give you direct access to a committer who would raise the profile of the bug internally and champion a solution. We could ask the committers to comment on the issue they are seeing with svndiff and let us know their initial thoughts before a support contract is signed, provided that we had a reasonable commitment in the first place.
