[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Matthias Kuhn]

Do we have a problem? What kind of?

Is a funded (with money) feature more worth than a feature or bugfix 
sponsored by a developer's private time?

On 10/10/2014 11:54 AM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> 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.
>
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