[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders - and developers?

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Zoltan,

On Fri, 04. Jul 2014 at 09:07:12 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Whilst recognising the immense importance of financial funding, surely  there
> are quite a few developers out there that have added to Open  Source by
> giving their own time without receiving any remuneration  whatsoever.

That and/or are doing it on their employers time without being contracted by a
customer.

> Perhaps a "bar-counter" showing the number of source-code lines  contributed
> in the last "rolling 12 month" period - maybe for the top 10  contributors
> only?

That's not as easy as it sounds.  There are bulk changes (eg. indentation) that
would probably attribute lines to people who didn't do the code - otoh those
maintainance task should also get recognition, although LOC does make even less
sense there (same for refactoring to remove clutter and thereby reduce LOC).


Jürgen

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