[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Jonathan Moules]

Chiming in from the perspective of someone who was working for an occasional feature “sponsor” until recently (mostly GeoServer, but also one or two QGIS), we didn’t do it with the intent of getting our name in anything (be it commit log, appendix, or even <h1> on the project front-page). We did it because we needed a feature or wanted to help the project.
If we were doing it to raise awareness of our philanthropy, the commit log is quite probably the absolute last place we’d have wanted it to be.


From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Lene Fischer
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 9:09 AM
To: Nyall Dawson; Alessandro Pasotti
Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!


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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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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