[Qgis-developer] Code maintainers

[Marco Hugentobler]

>agreed to keep it - the issue is where.
>other possibility: could we add a link to each developer's github commits?

Ok, if the whole organigram is moved to documentation, it makes sense to 
move the maintainers list with it.

Regards,
Marco

Am 30.01.2013 10:47, schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> Il 30/01/2013 09:20, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:
>> 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?
> I believe we agreed to move this kind of info to
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation
>>
>> 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...
> right - keeping the same info in two places can only aggravate the problem.
> however, keeping no longer active devs is not bad IMHO, as their code is
> mostly still alive on master.
>> 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).
> right - could we perhaps add this info to the About box, e.g.
>
> Chuck Norris, general overview of the project and spaceship interface
>
>> The wiki cleanup is much appreciated from my side. Just I vote for
>> keeping the organigram page (including maintainers section).
> agreed to keep it - the issue is where.
> other possibility: could we add a link to each developer's github commits?
>
> all the best.
>


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