[Qgis-psc] Credits for contributors

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi all.
> Here my suggestions for acknowledging the important role of contributors.
> ===
> 1. In the Governance docs:
> http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/index.html
>
> Individuals, institutions and firms who contributed code to QGIS can let
> people know about their contribution by:
> * adding a short note on the commit itself (something like "Developed
> with funding from ...) [did we agree on this?]
> * adding a note to the changelog for the first version where the code
> has been incorporated, of the type:
> This feature was funded by: Olmiomland http://olmiomland.ol
> This feature was developed by: Chuck Norris http://chucknorris.kr
>
> 2. In the Development page:
> Contributors of new functions are encouraged to let people know about
> their contribution by:
> * adding a note to the changelog for the first version where the code
> has been incorporated, of the type:
> This feature was funded by: Olmiomland http://olmiomland.ol
> This feature was developed by: Chuck Norris http://chucknorris.kr
> * writing an article about the new feature on a blog, and add it to the
> QGIS planet http://plugins.qgis.org/planet/
>
>
​Those sound good, there are also:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/CONTRIBUTORS

and

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/AUTHORS

and

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/contributors.json


That batch contributors and core developers can put their names into.

Regards


Tim​




> ===
> Comments welcome.
>
> All the best.
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