Hi,
The purpose is not to mention or list vendor, it's not a page to list
product based on Apache Kafka. The purpose is to list companies that
offer support for production, training or consulting only on Apache Kafka.
It's a common use case where users are looking for a commercial support
and this is something that the ASF doesn't provide so it's fair for
companies to propose offers to cover this use case. It's fair and help
the adoption of the project, like we can see in a lot of ASF projects
and I think it's better for a user to have a list on the website rather
than searching in google.
There is a mention in the text:
"The information must be factual and informational in nature and not be
a marketing statement.
Statements that promote your products and services over other
offerings on the page will not be tolerated and
will be removed. Such marketing statements can be added to your own
pages on your own site, but not here."
About the "phishing page" it's about the committer to check that the PR
to add a website is not a phishing and I'm not sure that their will be a
lot of these kind of PR.
regards,
François
On 10/01/2024 17:29, Divij Vaidya wrote:
I don't see a need for this. What additional information does this provide
over what can be found via a quick google search?
My primary concern is that we are getting in the business of listing
vendors in the project site which brings it's own complications without
adding much additional value for users. In the spirit of being vendor
neutral, I would try to avoid this as much as possible.
So, my question to you is:
1. What value does additional of this page bring to the users of Apache
Kafka?
2. When a new PR is submitted to add a vendor, what criteria do we have to
decide whether to add them or not? If we keep a blanket criteria of
accepting all PRs, then we may end up in a situation where the llink
redirects to a phishing page or nefarious website. Hence, we might have to
at least perform some basic due diligence which adds overhead to the
resources of the community.
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Divij Vaidya
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM fpapon <fpa...@apache.org> wrote:
Hi,
After starting a first thread on this topic (
https://lists.apache.org/thread/kkox33rhtjcdr5zztq3lzj7c5s7k9wsr), I
would like to propose a PR:
https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/577
The purpose of this proposal is to help users to find support for sla,
training, consulting...whatever that is not provide by the community as,
like we can already see in many ASF projects, no commercial support is
provided by the foundation. I think it could help with the adoption and the
growth of the project because the users
need commercial support for production issues.
If the community is agree about this idea and want to move forward, I just
add one company in the PR but everybody can add some by providing a new PR
to complete the list. If people want me to add other you can reply to this
thread because it will be better to have several company at the first
publication of the page.
Just provide the company-name and a short description of the service offer
around Apache Kafka. The information must be factual and informational in
nature and not be a marketing statement.
regards,
François
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François
