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I agree with Nathan and Nyall. The commit history isn't a very
"official" thing, so there is some room for attribution and other
additional information.<br>
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Personally I prefer a meaningful commit message with some "spam" in
it over a commit message that contains (almost) no useful
information like "Fix #1234", "Fix #4567 [Meaningless title of an
issue report]" "Followup 65443" (That one is not so bad, but could
be improved with some prose). I often find myself looking at the
commit history to find information about why something was done.<br>
IF something needs to be fixed in the commit log, then we should
rather focus on this than on a bit of pride, fun and attribution.<br>
<br>
I also think that a list of funders/sponsors for a particular
version would be nice. This could be directly below the changelog or
linked there (I am rather thinking of a list than each individual
change).<br>
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Regards,<br>
Matthias<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/2014 10:01 AM, Nathan Woodrow
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<div dir="ltr">I'm with Nyall. I see no direct reason this is a
bad idea. If I do something in my free time I don't care about
getting recognition for it because my direct work on the project
is enough and if someone wants to see what I do they can check
my commit history or blog, however if I commit something, say a
feature that took be a while to make, on work time under my
employers name for them I think it's worth noting that they
sponsored that work. Their contribution can be traced to that
single commit and pulled from the log.
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<div>The place it gets tricky is if you are running your own
business committing all the time for work reasons. </div>
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<div>On the same note I do think it's worth having a page for
each release with a list of users who were active and sponsors
that did the work. This would mean everyone gets highlighted
for their work. It doesn't need to be name + feature type of
list, just a list of names is enough..</div>
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<div>- Nathan</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Nyall
Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>></span>
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class="">On 10 October 2014 18:11, Alessandro Pasotti <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:apasotti@gmail.com">apasotti@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I noticed that somebody started to add commercials to
commit logs:<br>
><br>
> Sponsored by ....<br>
><br>
> Funded by ...<br>
><br>
> etc. etc.<br>
><br>
> We should take this seriously, mostly ever developer
works for a<br>
> company or run its own business.<br>
><br>
> Imagine if everybody starts adding those (not really
useful) sentences<br>
> to every commit.<br>
><br>
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</span>Is this really an issue? It seems rather trivial. I
personally am<br>
strongly in favour of these attributions in the commit log.
Reasons<br>
are:<br>
<br>
- It gives credit to sponsors. That's important! Look at how
many cool<br>
features were added in 2.6 thanks to sponsorship...<br>
- It gives credit to developers who donate their
free/company time.<br>
That's also important. QGIS wouldn't exist if it wasn't for
these<br>
developers donating their time<br>
- The commit log is basically for developers or power<br>
users/contributors only. It's a fairly harmless place to
advertise<br>
these sponsorship messages. For a while there was a few
"sponsored by"<br>
messages in code comments - that's a much worse/more
intrusive place<br>
for these messages.<br>
- It lets us blow off steam when release pressures ramp up
:P see<br>
68c49fe09, 34f00d106 and 2427546d8<br>
<br>
So, +1 for allowing these messages.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Nyall<br>
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