[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Considering that one of QGIS' main source of funding for development is
through financial sponsorship of _independent_ developers, I'd be very
careful not to take decisions that would hurt that ecosystem without asking
those independent developers the reasoning behind leaving a trace in the
commit log of who/what financially paid for feature XYZ.

For e.g., this could actually be a requirement of sponsors when it comes to
financial audits (i.e., what better audit proof that budgeted money went to
pay for specific improvement(s) of an open source project than a trace in
the said open source project's commit logs).

Beyond that, I find that as long as the "sponsored by" / "funded by"
one-liner is a the very end of the commit log, it doesn't hurt the ease of
readability of the commit logs via github or git log.

The home page footer sponsors are listing the QGIS project sponsors, not
sponsors who paid for independent developers to improve code and add new
features. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

M


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2014-10-10 10:09 GMT+02:00 Lene Fischer <lfi at ign.ku.dk>:
>
>>  I agree to Nyall –
>>
>> We need sponsors. And sponsors don´t want to be in footnotes fontsize 6.5
>>
>
> Agreed, see the footer the home page
>
> http://www.qgis.org/it/site/
>
>
>
>>  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
>>
>
> Sorry, I don't follow you: I was talking about commit logs.
>
>
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