Re: [Firebird-website] Wake up email

[Alexey K. <ak...@ib...>]

Milan,

thanks for good point.

>BTW, this could be a good revenue source for the Foundation, to ask a
>small annual fee from commercial tool developers to list their products
>on this page.

I am not sure  - why fee should be small? :)

There is a couple of issues regarding commercial activities in FF,
so initially at the first version of the site we will list only FlameRobin.



Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin






> Alexey Kovyazin wrote:
>> To report any problem, please create issues at Tracker.firebirdsql.org
>> in the Web site section http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/WEB
>> (issues with wrong section will be not considered).
>>
>> Please feel free to ask any questions.
> I already created a tracker item for the following, but maybe it's worth
> discussing here:
>
> It seems to me that the website is missing the page with links to GUI
> administration tools.
>
> Anyone interested in trying out Firebird would come to the website
> expecting to get a functioning database server and graphical
> administration tool. I understand that tools are not developed by the
> project, but I believe it is very important to list some graphical
> administration tools on the website. Otherwise, many people would come
> to a wrong conclusion that this is a console-mode only product and
> dismiss it without discovering all the features.
>
> If you do not want to promote commercial tools, please include open
> source tools like FlameRobin. You can add an "administration tools"
> section to the "Downloads" page. The "administration tools" page would
> have a proper warning that "tools listed here are 3rd party tools and
> not developed by the project" or something like that.
>
> BTW, this could be a good revenue source for the Foundation, to ask a
> small annual fee from commercial tool developers to list their products
> on this page.
>
> Regards,
>