[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders - and developers?
Zoltan Szecsei
zoltans at geograph.co.za
Fri Jul 4 01:00:07 PDT 2014
Fair comments from both Andreas and Jurgen (below).
I was merely trying to see if we should also be looking after the
efforts of the quiet self funded developer in the back room.
Regards,
Zoltan
On 2014/07/04 09:48, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> 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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