[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2014-10-10 11:49 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de>:
> Hi Anita,
>
> On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:26:57 +0200, Anita Graser wrote:
>> As Jürgen mentioned, we discussed this:
>> http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/PSC_Meeting_7_Feb_2014
>> My interpretation is that the PSC agreed on allowing giving credit to
>> funders in commit messages. Obviously I promised to write something
>> along these lines in the governance docs, but that might have gotten
>> lost in my todo pile:
>
> You can't as we didn't decide anything, did we?   I don't see a point in
> guidelines - either it's allowed or it's not.  Guidelines would just dis- or
> encourage the attribution, but not set a clear rule - and then this discussion
> could go on and on (well, it probably will either way).
>
>

Hi Jürgen,

you've got the point.

Without clear rules we risk abuse.

My original complaint was not about occasional big new features
fundings (see regione Toscana or city of Uster) but day-by-day small
bug fixes or changes made by regular committers.

If every developer start adding "Funded by ...." lines to each and
every commit he makes, than we have a problem.



-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
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