[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Nyall Dawson]

On 10/10/2014 8:58 pm, "Matthias Kuhn" <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:
>
> 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?

Agreed. If I spend 2 hours of my free time fixing a bug, I think i'd be
entitled to putting a "sponsored by" message in the log to use as
advertising for my business.

Ultimately it's far more important to have the bug fixed than have a
slightly shorter commit log.

Nyall


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