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

[Zoltan Szecsei]

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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