Rod Norman wrote:
Shane - Would you like to join the discussions below as to the finer points of the payment process (and others) - Regards - Rod
OK.
-----Original Message----- From: Reinhard Mueller [mailto:reinhard.mueller@bytewise.at]
- Will a vendor be able to upgrade from the "single product" option to
the "unlimited products" option?
Rod 20070927 - Yes. I assume that this will have to be an admin process. We will agree the new payments and PayPal will be initiated on the next product registration.
OK.
- Who will approve a project as "community project" to allow for free
(as in free beer) certification? Will this be an administrator using the web interface, or will it be the DB admin using the GNU Enterprise interface?
Rod 20070927 - I have assumed that once again this will be an admin process through GNU
OK.
- Will the approval for a community project relate to the vendor or to
the product?
Rod 20070927 - I am assuming that this relates to the product only. Are there any complications with this decision?
No problem with either way, I just have to know.
I think it needs to relate to a product rather than vendor. Some vendors support community projects (Fedora) and deploy purely commercial products (RHEL). Red Hat would need to be able to get both certified. One would qualify as a community project. The other would be charged.
Board, does this sound correct?
- Will a community project be able to register product data before it
is approved as a community project?
Rod 20070927 - All requests will have to go through the payment process before CO registration review. In that case we will either have to accept a zero payment through PayPal (probably not possible) or force them to pay and give a refund once the product is agreed by the CO as a valid in the community.
Of course I am happy to implement any decision you take on this, but let me express that I explicitly recommend against this. For me personally, this would be a reason to not register my community project (if I had one to register).
I don't think we should need to go through payment processes to register a community project.
Is it possible that a community project could select 'community' and this would bypass the payment process?
- Will a (commercial) vendor be able to register product data before
he pays? Of course the approval of the certification could only happen if the vendor has paid. But this way a vendor can test for the score he will reach before he decides to pay for the certification.
Rod 20070927 - I have had no response on this question. My feeling is that this is an extra process which complicates the s/w.
Not exactly. A process like this would not more complicated in the software:
- Allow account registration to everybody
- Allow product registration to everybody with an account
- Hold back certification approval until (a) payment is done or (b) product is approved as "community project"
(the holding back would of course happen automatically, i.e. products with missing payments simply aren't listed on the list of products to approve)
and we also solve the problem with the fake payment for community projects with this.
I think this sounds good. Can we do this? Board, do you agree?
Shane