Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-19 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2014 11:01 pm, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi Jonathan, I don't think that this is the message that QGIS wants to spread. If it would be, we would do popups that ask you to sponsor

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-19 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com wrote: Hi On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: Regards, Matthias +1 . Can I request that the psc please make a final ruling about this issue so that we can close this discussion

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Larry Shaffer Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:58 AM To: Alessandro Pasotti Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs! Hi Alessandro, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Andrea Peri
, 2014 12:58 AM *To:* Alessandro Pasotti *Cc:* QGIS Developer Mailing List *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs! Hi Alessandro, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-10 14:44 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-13 13:23 GMT+02:00 Andrea Peri aperi2...@gmail.com: I guess no fiscale advantage there are for any funding GFOSS. So seeing to fiscale advantage the fund to GFOSS are fund lost. I guess however that if a developer named Count zero give some code developed by its own. Why dont write

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Moules j.mou...@hrwallingford.com wrote: At the risk of being a dissenting voice, is this really the message QGIS wants to spread? That sponsorship is king? As an Open Source GIS project, I would hope that its prowess lay in producing exceptional GI

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
Every single log line has the committer's GitHub name so it isn't anonymous. I know, but that also includes the paid-for devs; my point was that if QGIS wishes to highlight those paying for work with money, then highlighting those paying for work with time seems fair too. Other than that, I'm

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Matthias Kuhn
*Subject:* Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs! Hi Alessandro, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com mailto:apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-10 14:44 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de mailto:j...@norbit.de: Hi Matthias, On Fri, 10

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 13/10/2014 11:01 pm, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi Jonathan, I don't think that this is the message that QGIS wants to spread. If it would be, we would do popups that ask you to sponsor for every new feature you created ;-) But as you state, sponsorship is a means to an

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Honestly. I don't really think it's that big of a deal. If you pay for something in your time and would like credit for it there are lots of ways to get credit: blogs, twitters, commit logs, github stats. If I do something and I want people to think oh look a new feature Nathan added (or someone

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 13-10-14 14:09, Nyall Dawson wrote: +1 . Can I request that the psc please make a final ruling about this issue so that we can close this discussion and all move on? Speaking here with my PSC hat on |:-) Nice example of a 'community discussion/rise-up' I think, but as noted by Anita

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Vincent Picavet
Hi, Le lundi 13 octobre 2014 14:12:08, Nathan Woodrow a écrit : [..] The reality is this: 1) Some companies want to see it for record, or contract. 2) It doesn't pollute the log 3) It's at the bottom so you don't see it unless you do a full log (git log --oneline if you didn't know you can

[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
Hi, I noticed that somebody started to add commercials to commit logs: Sponsored by Funded by ... etc. etc. We should take this seriously, mostly ever developer works for a company or run its own business. Imagine if everybody starts adding those (not really useful) sentences to every

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Andrea Peri
Hi Alessandro. +1 . Almost because I guess the Public Administration should be stop di wast resources in gfoss. :) So the private could use their money as like better. Instead the public should simply acquire licenses of commecial. This could resolve any problem. Dont ? A. 2014-10-10 9:11

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-10 9:30 GMT+02:00 Andrea Peri aperi2...@gmail.com: Hi Alessandro. +1 . Almost because I guess the Public Administration should be stop di wast resources in gfoss. :) So the private could use their money as like better. Instead the public should simply acquire licenses of

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Alessandro, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 09:11:46 +0200, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: I noticed that somebody started to add commercials to commit logs: Sponsored by Funded by ... etc. etc. We should take this seriously, mostly ever developer works for a company or run its own

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-10 9:30 GMT+02:00 G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com: Hi Alessandro, we surely can find a better way but I don't see any solution at the moment when an institution wants to have an official track of what has been developed with their funding. What about release notes? Changelog ? --

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 10 October 2014 18:11, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I noticed that somebody started to add commercials to commit logs: Sponsored by Funded by ... etc. etc. We should take this seriously, mostly ever developer works for a company or run its own business.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Andrea Peri
The question is that whn we use an european fund to fund a develope for gfoss (like qgis). The enhancement is an advantace for all. This is a certain. But the European require to certificate the reality of the Fund putting a disclaimer on the product realized. Otherwise no fund at all. I guess

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I'm with Nyall. I see no direct reason this is a bad idea. If I do something in my free time I don't care about getting recognition for it because my direct work on the project is enough and if someone wants to see what I do they can check my commit history or blog, however if I commit

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Lene Fischer
[mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] På vegne af Nyall Dawson Sendt: 10. oktober 2014 09:51 Til: Alessandro Pasotti Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List Emne: Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs! On 10 October 2014 18:11, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.commailto:apaso

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Matthias Kuhn
I agree with Nathan and Nyall. The commit history isn't a very official thing, so there is some room for attribution and other additional information. Personally I prefer a meaningful commit message with some spam in it over a commit message that contains (almost) no useful information like

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-10 10:09 GMT+02:00 Lene Fischer l...@ign.ku.dk: I agree to Nyall – We need sponsors. And sponsors don´t want to be in footnotes fontsize 6.5 Agreed, see the footer the home page http://www.qgis.org/it/site/ Right now I´ve started to get sponsors to the next

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Considering that one of QGIS' main source of funding for development is through financial sponsorship of _independent_ developers, I'd be very careful not to take decisions that would hurt that ecosystem without asking those independent developers the reasoning behind leaving a trace in the commit

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:18:53AM +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: I agree with Nathan and Nyall. The commit history isn't a very official thing, so there is some room for attribution and other additional information. Personally I prefer a meaningful commit message with some spam in it over a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Anita Graser
As Jürgen mentioned, we discussed this: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/PSC_Meeting_7_Feb_2014 My interpretation is that the PSC agreed on allowing giving credit to funders in commit messages. Obviously I promised to write something along these lines in the governance docs, but that might

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Lene Fischer Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 9:09 AM To: Nyall Dawson; Alessandro Pasotti Cc: QGIS Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs! I agree to Nyall – We need sponsors. And sponsors don´t want to be in footnotes fontsize 6.5

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Anita, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:26:57 +0200, Anita Graser wrote: As Jürgen mentioned, we discussed this: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/PSC_Meeting_7_Feb_2014 My interpretation is that the PSC agreed on allowing giving credit to funders in commit messages. Obviously I promised to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
My guideline in all this would be: What harm is it doing to need to change what is currently happening? To me the answer is none. Provided you don't put it all on one line in the commit log and have it at the bottom then put what ever you like in there as long as I can see what was done and by

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Matthias Kuhn
To make an example, this is a good commit message. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/a132bc9a9e318c2321c8fba13dc9503b4d11e2aa It states * which problem it solves * and what it does exactly And I could not care less about an additional line at the bottom stating Funded by John Wayne -

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-10 11:49 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de: Hi Anita, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:26:57 +0200, Anita Graser wrote: As Jürgen mentioned, we discussed this: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/PSC_Meeting_7_Feb_2014 My interpretation is that the PSC agreed on allowing giving credit to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Do we have a problem? What kind of? Is a funded (with money) feature more worth than a feature or bugfix sponsored by a developer's private time? On 10/10/2014 11:54 AM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: 2014-10-10 11:49 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de: Hi Anita, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-10 11:58 GMT+02:00 Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch: Do we have a problem? What kind of? There was an IF condition in front of my sentence: IF every developer starts . THEN we have a problem And the problem would be flooding of commit logs with Funded|Sponsored by ... I can

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Victor Olaya
I personally do not see any problem in having a Sponsored by bottom line even in every commit message. Maybe not the most correct thing to do, but it doesn't bother me, just like it doesn't bother me to see the author of the commit. As long as the first line of the message (which is the one shown

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 10/10/2014 8:58 pm, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Do we have a problem? What kind of? Is a funded (with money) feature more worth than a feature or bugfix sponsored by a developer's private time? Agreed. If I spend 2 hours of my free time fixing a bug, I think i'd be entitled

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Also we should avoid playing the What If game. It's not normally a good idea because it's a open ended question. My position is normally fix a problem when it becomes a problem. (This only applies to non life threatening situations of course). - Nathan On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Nyall

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 10 October 2014 21:24, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/2014 8:58 pm, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Do we have a problem? What kind of? Is a funded (with money) feature more worth than a feature or bugfix sponsored by a developer's private time? Agreed.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Anita Graser
Hi Jürgen, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:26:57 +0200, Anita Graser wrote: As Jürgen mentioned, we discussed this: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/PSC_Meeting_7_Feb_2014 My interpretation is that the PSC agreed on allowing

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Alessandro, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:54:06 +0200, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: My original complaint was not about occasional big new features fundings (see regione Toscana or city of Uster) but day-by-day small bug fixes or changes made by regular committers. If every developer start

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Matthias, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:53:28 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: To make an example, this is a good commit message. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/a132bc9a9e318c2321c8fba13dc9503b4d11e2aa It states * which problem it solves * and what it does exactly And I could not care

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2014-10-10 14:44 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de: Hi Matthias, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:53:28 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: To make an example, this is a good commit message. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/a132bc9a9e318c2321c8fba13dc9503b4d11e2aa It states * which problem it

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi Alessandro, On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-10 14:44 GMT+02:00 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de: Hi Matthias, On Fri, 10. Oct 2014 at 11:53:28 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: To make an example, this is a good commit message.