[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Nathan Woodrow]

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.

The place it gets tricky is if you are running your own business committing
all the time for work reasons.

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..

- Nathan

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10 October 2014 18:11, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that somebody started to add commercials to commit logs:
> >
> > Sponsored by ....
> >
> > Funded by ...
> >
> > etc. etc.
> >
> > We should take this seriously, mostly ever developer works for a
> > company or run its own business.
> >
> > Imagine if everybody starts adding those (not really useful) sentences
> > to every commit.
> >
>
> Is this really an issue? It seems rather trivial. I personally am
> strongly in favour of these attributions in the commit log. Reasons
> are:
>
> - It gives credit to sponsors. That's important! Look at how many cool
> features were added in 2.6 thanks to sponsorship...
> - It gives credit to developers who donate their free/company time.
> That's also important. QGIS wouldn't exist if it wasn't for these
> developers donating their time
> - 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"
> messages in code comments - that's a much worse/more intrusive place
> for these messages.
> - It lets us blow off steam when release pressures ramp up :P see
> 68c49fe09, 34f00d106 and 2427546d8
>
> So, +1 for allowing these messages.
>
> Nyall
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