[Qgis-developer] Code maintainers

[Marco Hugentobler]

>what is IMHO wrong is keeping two similar sources of info in two
>different places; I suggested to move everything to the About box of the
>application, and ask devs to update their info there. Adding their
>maintained code and link is open to question.

But are you removing the whole Project_Organigram page 
(http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Project_Organigram) and list all 
the persons in the organiram in the contributors page of the about 
dialog then? Following your logic, the information of the release team 
and community team could also outdate some day or not totally reflect 
'reality'.

Btw., the about box can also outdate. It is very unlikely that 
contributors who are not active anymore remove their name from the about 
box as a last commit...

>do we really
>have maintainers for all the code?

We don't need to (unless the financial department brings in 3 Mio. $ / 
year :-) ). It is already a huge gain for the project if there are some 
maintained parts. Even if a maintainers page cannot reflect reality 
perfectly (but nothing can do that), it motivates people to keep code 
parts up-to-date (e.g. with recent API changes).

>underlying rationale: we grew a lot over the years, and I got scared
>about how messy is our wiki. I think presenting a more clear and simple
>picture to the world would be good (yes, I'm wearing my Marketing
>advisor cap here).

The wiki cleanup is much appreciated from my side. Just I vote for 
keeping the organigram page (including maintainers section).

Regards,
Marco



On 29.01.2013 18:19, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 29/01/2013 17:07, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:
>> Some maintainers are not active anymore, but apart from that, most
>> information is still true (e.g. entries Nathan mssql provider,
>> René-Luc for WFS server are pretty recent).
>> Please keep that list (but I don't mind if it is in the wiki or in the
>> about dialog).
> The inactive devs are mentioned as maintainers of some part of the code,
> which is incorrect and misleading
>
>>> * it is duplicated in the About, and not in sync
>> Do you mean the about dialog in the application? I cannot find any
>> maintainer list there...
>
> right, there is a list of devs, without an indication of what they are
> maintaining; however, I think the real picture is more complex than one
> dev==one section of the code, so a tagging system would be more
> appropriate (but overly complex and unmaintainable IMHO). do we really
> have maintainers for all the code?
> what is IMHO wrong is keeping two similar sources of info in two
> different places; I suggested to move everything to the About box of the
> application, and ask devs to update their info there. Adding their
> maintained code and link is open to question.
>
> underlying rationale: we grew a lot over the years, and I got scared
> about how messy is our wiki. I think presenting a more clear and simple
> picture to the world would be good (yes, I'm wearing my Marketing
> advisor cap here).
>
> thanks for your thoughts.
>


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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Sourcepole -  Linux & Open Source Solutions
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Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee