[Xapian-discuss] Xapian.org design

Charlie Hull charlie at juggler.net
Tue May 17 09:13:36 BST 2011


On 17/05/2011 00:54, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:27:29PM -0700, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>> But definitely having Oligarchy Ltd and Lemur Consulting Ltd on the
>> front page will create better sales pitch than having it in separate
>> support page. :-)
>
> I don't think they belong there really.  The home page of a FOSS project
> site isn't the appropriate place for a sales pitch.  That list is likely
> to grow with time too (there's already Celestial Navigation missing).
>
> We want to let people know that commercial support is available should
> they want it, but we don't need to thrust a list of companies in front
> of every visitor to the site the moment they walk in the door.

Agreed. Consider Apache Lucene: there's a list of commercial support 
options somewhere on a Wiki page (and easily found by googling) but not 
on the front page. The website should be about the project, primarily.

Cheers

Charlie
Flax (Lemur Consulting Ltd)
>
> Cheers,
>      Olly
>
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