When should be advocate external projects?

Hello,

There has been a lot of back and forth about when we (as a community)
should advocate external projects as well as where we should advocate
external projects. It seems the more advocacy minded individuals would
like to be more inclusive whilst the -hackers and old school folks don't
want to bother with it at all (this is not exclusive, I know there are
exceptions).

I think we need to come up with some guidelines. I have my own ideas of
what those should be:

* Must be released under an OSI approved license
* Must have source downloadable without barrier (no registration for
example)
* Must have a way to file bug reports

There are others but they may be controversial so I will leave them for now.

One example that I just recently looked at was PgBadger. PgBader is
primarily developed by Dalibo but:

* It is released under an OSI approved license
* Has source downloadable without barrier
* Has a way to file bug reports
* Has an open mailing list
* An explicit link to how to contribute

It does make it a point of highlighting Dalibo as the support provider
but it also links directly to:

http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support

And shows those professionals respect too.[1]

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

1. http://dalibo.github.io/pgbadger/

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