[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

Nyall Dawson nyall.dawson at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 03:30:24 PDT 2014


On 10 October 2014 21:24, 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.
>

Actually - the more I think about it, the more I'm in FAVOUR of these
messages. I personally think every "sponsored by
Sourcepole/Boundless/Norbit/..." adds weight to the project. It shows
that it's a serious project with serious backers, rather than a
part-time hobby project.

Nyall


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