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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Chiming in from the perspective of someone who was working for an occasional feature “sponsor” until recently (mostly GeoServer, but also one or two QGIS), we
didn’t do it with the intent of getting our name in anything (be it commit log, appendix, or even <h1> on the project front-page). We did it because we needed a feature or wanted to help the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If we were doing it to raise awareness of our philanthropy, the commit log is quite probably the absolute last place we’d have wanted it to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lene Fischer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 10, 2014 9:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nyall Dawson; Alessandro Pasotti<br>
<b>Cc:</b> QGIS Developer Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I agree to Nyall – </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">We need sponsors. And sponsors don´t want to be in footnotes fontsize 6.5</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Right now I´ve started to get sponsors to the next developer/usermeeting in Denmark. And I´m sure sponsors will not be satisfied to be put into an appendix.</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I think these small textnotes in the mail are harmless</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Regards</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA" style="mso-fareast-language:DA">-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----<br>
Fra: <a href="mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] På vegne af Nyall Dawson<br>
Sendt: 10. oktober 2014 09:51<br>
Til: Alessandro Pasotti<br>
Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List<br>
Emne: Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">On 10 October 2014 18:11, Alessandro Pasotti <<a href="mailto:apasotti@gmail.com"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">apasotti@gmail.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> I noticed that somebody started to add commercials to commit logs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> Sponsored by ....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> Funded by ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> etc. etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> We should take this seriously, mostly ever developer works for a
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> company or run its own business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> Imagine if everybody starts adding those (not really useful) sentences
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> to every commit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">Is this really an issue? It seems rather trivial. I personally am strongly in favour of these attributions in the commit log. Reasons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">- It gives credit to sponsors. That's important! Look at how many cool features were added in 2.6 thanks to sponsorship...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">- It gives credit to developers who donate their free/company time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">That's also important. QGIS wouldn't exist if it wasn't for these developers donating their time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">- The commit log is basically for developers or power users/contributors only. It's a fairly harmless place to advertise these sponsorship messages. For a while there was a few "sponsored by"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">messages in code comments - that's a much worse/more intrusive place for these messages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">- It lets us blow off steam when release pressures ramp up :P see 68c49fe09, 34f00d106 and 2427546d8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">So, +1 for allowing these messages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DA">Nyall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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