[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Lene Fischer]

I agree to Nyall -

We need sponsors. And sponsors don´t want to be in footnotes fontsize 6.5

Right now I´ve started to get sponsors to the next developer/usermeeting in Denmark. And I´m sure sponsors will not be satisfied to be put into an appendix.

I think these small textnotes in the mail are harmless

Regards

Lene Fischer
Associate Professor

Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
University of Copenhagen

MOB +45 40115084
lfi at ign.ku.dk<mailto:lfi at ign.ku.dk>


[SCIENCE_bomaerke_UK]




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Fra: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] På vegne af Nyall Dawson
Sendt: 10. oktober 2014 09:51
Til: Alessandro Pasotti
Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List
Emne: Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!



On 10 October 2014 18:11, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com<mailto: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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