[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 13/10/2014 11:01 pm, "Matthias Kuhn" <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > I don't think that this is the message that QGIS wants to spread. If it
> > would be, we would do popups that ask you to sponsor for every new
> > feature you created ;-)
> >
> > But as you state, sponsorship is a means to an end. As such it is a
> > prerequisite for moving this software on and therefore it is good if
> > users are aware of the fact, that this software was created by people
> > and that they can only spend their time if they have a possibility to
> > get the money they need for a living.
> >
> > If you ask me: a "funded by" is in a commit author's responsibility. He
> > knows what he wrote that commit for. Be it for money, for fun, for his
> > boss, somebody he loves or a university degree. If he thinks it is worth
> > putting a note there for any reason - i.e. definitely not limited to
> > monetary transactions - he should be able to do so. It does no harm, but
> > may be a reward for his time or be part of a contract.
> >
> > The username next to a git commit is not the same thing. It can only
> > tell who does the commit, but does not tell for what reason/who he does
> it.
> >
> > The only restriction I would put to this is that it must be placed at
> > the end of the commit on a new line (for the sake of good readability).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthias
>
> +1 . Can I request that the psc please make a final ruling about this
> issue so that we can close this discussion and all move on?
>

Sure - please raise the question (in a clear yes/no answerable form) to the
PSC mailing list for these type of queries.

Regards

Tim

> Nyall
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