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Subject: Re: Reducing confusion around client libraries
From: Paul Brown <paulrbrown@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:25:33 -0800
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On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Eric Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 13:46 -0600, Tyler Hobbs wrote:
>> Personally, I like the Mongo drivers page:
>> http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Drivers
>>=20
>> I like the clear distinction between preferred and alternative =
clients
>> without a lot of clutter about release dates and supported versions.
>> How do we make that distinction, though?  A "supported by Riptano"
>> section is one option, but that doesn't even encompass all of the
>> preferred clients.
> This sounds like you're suggesting that we place an "official =
according
> to Riptano" section on the project wiki.  That sounds... worse.

The PMC can sort it out, but I don't think it's within the =
purview/charter of the project to bless third-party libraries.  For =
libraries/content that are shipped with officially Apache artifacts, =
there are clear and specific standards in terms of licenses, =
intellectual property, etc., and endorsing (versus simply listing) =
third-party components on a project site is probably inappropriate.  =
(IMHO.)  What happens on a third party's site is another matter.

-- Paul=