On 26 September 2012 09:42, David Aldrich <david.aldr...@emea.nec.com>wrote:
> Hi Stephen**** > > ** ** > > Thanks for the indication that there is some hope that 'Even Load > Strategy' could one day become free.**** > > ** > Long long in the future ;-) > ** > > However, I can’t imagine what a supporting business case might be. > Nor can I, hence why I say long long in the future for Even Load Strategy. But situations change, and sometimes can change rapidly. > **** > > ** ** > > What business case did you make for ‘Credentials’? > Credentials provides a core abstraction. In order for that abstraction to be of any value, the abstraction needs to be used by the open source plugins, such as ssh-slaves, subversion, git, jira, etc As such the plugin needs to be open source. The higher level functionality that we have in mind based off of, e.g. our RBAC plugin, etc can remain closed source... though some of the use cases that we have driving that have to wait for more open source plugins to support Credentials. Credentials was easy! > **** > > ** ** > > David**** > > ** ** > > *From:* jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto: > jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Connolly > *Sent:* 26 September 2012 09:38 > > *To:* jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: 'Even Load Strategy' Plugin**** > > ** ** > > On 26 September 2012 09:12, David Aldrich <david.aldr...@emea.nec.com> > wrote:**** > > Thanks for the clarification. > > It would be nice if there was some initiative to produce an open-source > plugin with similar functionality. But I guess that will not come from > CloudBees.**** > > ** ** > > Well we do like to push our plugins "down the stack" *when it makes > sense*. **** > > ** ** > > So for example the Folders plugin started off life as a Paid plugin, it is > now Free (closed source).**** > > ** ** > > The Credentials plugin started off life as being Paid functionality that > was to be an enhancement to the Folders plugin. In the end, however, I was > able to make a good business case that that specific plugin should be Free > (open source).**** > > ** ** > > [My only gripe is that no paying customer has pestered us to integrate the > Credentials plugin into the Subversion and Git plugins... if enough of them > pester Product Management then I get to work on that during work hours and > not just my spare time (current spare time < none) ;-) ]**** > > ** ** > > If we (the cloudbees developers) can make a good business case for a > plugin being made Free (open source), then my experience shows that our > management is responsive.**** > > ** ** > > I cannot currently see such a business case for the Even Load plugin. **** > > ** ** > > But that does not mean that such a business case cannot be made!**** > > ** ** > > -Stephen**** > > **** > > Best regards > > David > > **** > > > > **** > > Click > here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/Mfqx7NlpG77TndxI!oX7UqpuQnERN3F7f6K8Q70G2jw3hqNB03PI5t6h+WiQQnPqcaNoLX7YznKELIeSJhirLg==>to > report this email as spam. > **** >
