[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 02/07/2014 17:18, Vincent Picavet ha scritto:

> I want to raise an important topic to fellow QGIS users, developers and... 
> funders ! It is clear from the release process debate, that one of the thing 
> we need, is more funders.

> This is communication, but improving the general feedback to the organizations 
> which really are spending money on QGIS to improve it for all of us to benefit 
> from, would really help to get more people and more organizations involved.

Hi Vincent,

thanks for raising this important point. The issue is well known, and we have been
discussing about it several times. In principle we'd be happy to give proper credits
to funders. The main issue, IMHO, is that it is difficult to be fair in this:
* How do we weight different contributions?
* We all do some extra work (unpaid of covered by the surplus of major works): how to
take this into account? If we do not do it, we effectively discourage developers and
firms from contributing.
The current approach, allowing funders to add a short note on the commits, and
encouraging them to advertise it by posting notes and descriptions of these
functions, is flexible and adds little overhead. I feel some of your suggestions
would add too much noise e.g. to the About box.

All the best.

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