Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Would a +46-31 number work? If so, you could give me a call when you're >> having trouble. I'd probably end up asking the list, or bribing Junio >> with beer to answer for me, but the fee would be low (how much is a >> dozen beers in Japan?), so perhaps it'd be worth it ;-) > > Heh. The thing is, with me "on staff" I doubt you can get much > better support. I know Git very well, almost as well as Linus, > Junio, Nico, and Johannes (sorry, no particular order there). > What I don't know off the top of my head, I know where the source > code for it is, and I can read and understand it rather quickly. > Ya, I knows. :) > When something breaks, I can usually fix it myself, and that usually > results in a patch to Junio just hours after I discover the problem. > Most of the time the patch is worthy of inclusion and Junio picks > it up. You can't get that kind of response from a commerical vendor, > at least not without forking over bucket loads of cash first. > > The problem is, the organization has strict rules about recommending > yourself as a vendor. But recommending a guy half way around the > world who works for beer is probably in compliance. :-) > That was my devilishly clever plan; To provide support to someone who knows the thing I'm supposed to support a lot better than myself, while getting some free beer in the process ;-) >> On a serious note, it's probably about time the world saw its first >> commercial git support company. It's legal to package and sell GPL'd >> code. Many companies have already proven that it can be a very >> lucrative business. > > I've thought about doing this myself. I'm just so short on time > that developing a business providing support would probably push me > way over the edge. Ideally I'd love to have such a venture make its > money off support contracts and a small markup on dead-tree forms of > open-source Git documentation. I'd also love to see such a venture > be able to support a Git developer or two full-time, making sure that > all of their work is getting folded back into the main git.git tree. > Which of course implies they can't be heading off in directions > that the rest of the group finds useless/pointless/stupid/etc. > > Wishful thinking. Back to reality. > This is a case where "Think Big" isn't enough, and you need to "Think Bigger". Don't settle for shipping help-docs on git and answering the phone. Sell pre-packaged versions of git, with a pre-installed Linux server with raided disks and a nifty backup-solution (just sell a second server and use an update-hook to replicate everything to that one, then you're done). You could easily charge up to $2,500 / user for providing "A fully integrated VCS / backup solution, with full failover to ensure 100% efficiency in your day-to-day job". Tack on another 10k for the two servers and another 1k / dev to go to a training seminar and you're good to go. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html