Selon Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>: > Il 03/07/2014 14:29, n.roch...@aduga.org ha scritto: > > Sear Paolo > > > > I think, social network is a good way, politician are using it a lot. > > The oher way should put the name and logo of the agency/business wich fund > *entirely* > > a new feature on the graphic changelog > > (http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.4.0/) > > I understand your point. It may be difficult, or impossible, to define when a > feature > is funded entirely by one subject; software does not live in isolation, and > we risk > to overlook fundamental work in favour of more "flashy" new stuff. > The issue here is to give appropriate credit to everyone, and be fair in this > context > is really tricky. That's why I would not mind leaving the advertising of a > feature to > its funder. > Of course, this may not fit equally well everyone.
I agree with Paolo proper credit is tricky and some hard work isn't always visible or lies elsewhere. For example, QGIS benefits from GDAL/OGR. So to satisfy a user need, for example better supporting XXXXX format, most (if not all) of the ground work is done outside of QGIS. This is not a feature that will be visible in a QGIS commit, but as it is likely that the funder isn't completely aware of the technical details since he has probably just ordered "make QGIS work with XXXXX format", he could be badly surprised to not see it mentionned in QGIS credits. Don't get me wrong : I'm not saying that funders should not be credited (their support is much needed !), just underlying the fairness issues. Even > All the best. > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu > Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user