[Koha] Proposal to remove the 'Paid support' list

[Steve Sowder]

How about a list of providers that is recommended by _customers_?
With a provider being removed one year after the last recommendation.


Steve
sowder at andrews.edu

On 7/1/2015 1:44 PM, Mark Tompsett wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>> It would be nice if people could find out I am contributing
>> stuff without learning to understand bugzilla.
> 
> Sadly, if a person's name continues to appear on a list in the same
> place, those requesting quotes for proposals will not pay attention and
> learn what the list is. The learning curve forces learning. I'm sorry it
> is harsh, but people tend to take the path of least resistance which
> includes remaining ignorant of how the list works.
> 
> 
>> My proposal would be to have something similar to the »Patches
>> pushed for release« thingy on http://dashboard.koha-community.org.
>> Maybe a longer time span (like, people/ companies that have
>> contributed over the last year), but no »all time contributers« list
>> that would bring us lots of one time »contributions« for the sake of
>> being listed forever.
> 
> A list like "Name/Organization, Country, Date of Last Accepted Patch"
> capped since old stable initial release would be nice, but it opens it
> back up to this stupidity which we want to avoid, because marketing
> people may hype and lie. No list provides no opportunity for them to
> hype and lie.
> 
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
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