[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Nathan Woodrow]

Also we should avoid playing the What If game.  It's not normally a good
idea because it's a open ended question.  My position is normally fix a
problem when it becomes a problem. (This only applies to non life
threatening situations of course).

- Nathan

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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:
> >>
> >> 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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