<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all.<br>
Here my suggestions for acknowledging the important role of contributors.<br>
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1. In the Governance docs:<br>
<a href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/index.html</a><br>
<br>
Individuals, institutions and firms who contributed code to QGIS can let<br>
people know about their contribution by:<br>
* adding a short note on the commit itself (something like "Developed<br>
with funding from ...) [did we agree on this?]<br>
* adding a note to the changelog for the first version where the code<br>
has been incorporated, of the type:<br>
This feature was funded by: Olmiomland <a href="http://olmiomland.ol" target="_blank">http://olmiomland.ol</a><br>
This feature was developed by: Chuck Norris <a href="http://chucknorris.kr" target="_blank">http://chucknorris.kr</a><br>
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2. In the Development page:<br>
Contributors of new functions are encouraged to let people know about<br>
their contribution by:<br>
* adding a note to the changelog for the first version where the code<br>
has been incorporated, of the type:<br>
This feature was funded by: Olmiomland <a href="http://olmiomland.ol" target="_blank">http://olmiomland.ol</a><br>
This feature was developed by: Chuck Norris <a href="http://chucknorris.kr" target="_blank">http://chucknorris.kr</a><br>
* writing an article about the new feature on a blog, and add it to the<br>
QGIS planet <a href="http://plugins.qgis.org/planet/" target="_blank">http://plugins.qgis.org/planet/</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Those sound good, there are also:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/CONTRIBUTORS">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/CONTRIBUTORS</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/AUTHORS">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/AUTHORS</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/contributors.json">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/contributors.json</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That batch contributors and core developers can put their names into.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tim​</div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Comments welcome.<br>
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All the best.<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888">--<br>
Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html</a><br>
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