Re: Not wanting to throw a wrench in things

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
> [quoting me]
>> My understanding is that the current deal with the mirror site operators
>> is specifically "you host a mirror, you get a free banner ad". While
>> not all may be taking advantage of that, those who are might be pretty
>> annoyed to find the web team unilaterally renegotiating the deal :-(.
>> I'd suggest treading carefully in this area, and if possible leaving it
>> till after the new site design is up and running.

> Can we move away from this policy if we have not already, so we can possibly
> reach a site with no banners someday? (like most other open source sites)

I have no problem with moving away from it, I'm just saying that it's
not nice to blindside the mirror operators with a new deal. Over a
reasonable period of time, we could let people know that we want to move
to a new site design without banner ads, with such-and-such recognition
for mirrors instead. Them that don't like the new deal can drop out,
and then we change. But it's just not polite to make such a change
without fair advance notice to all parties.

regards, tom lane