Re: Proprietary software marketing on Wiki page -- AgensGraph Postgres fork

On 2019-11-02 00:11, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 10/31/19 8:08 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> I imagine that this Wiki page falls afoul of some policy or other
>> around marketing proprietary software through a community channel:
>>
>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/AgensGraph
>>
>> Even if it doesn't, I don't think that we want to have this kind of
>> thing on the PostgreSQL wiki.
>
> There are wiki pages where we link to 3rd party / proprietary solutions
> that provide information as well as links back to their websites e.g.
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQL_GUI_Tools
>
> but we don't have them at the top level. I think the URL immediately
> above is ok, as it is informational.
>
> That said, I agree with your assessment that we should not let the wiki
> be used for pure advertising purposes for proprietary products. We have
> a section of the website for that.
>
> I also found this one while looking through the recent changes:
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Ecosystem:dbForge_Studio_for_PostgreSQL
>
> which looks like it was trying to subcategorize but not sure if it did,
> but likewise falls into the same camp.
>
> I would +1 for removing those pages.

With the AgensGraph one, what's the problem with it? The page itself
says
it's an OSS thing, though the further description sounds like "Open
Core".

We're not anti-commercial here (apart from abusive commercial things),
or at least we haven't been thus far.

?

+ Justin