Hi Zoltan, I believe the developers, contributors and translators get their recognition already. Their names are listed in the about box of our software. In addition you can read their names on github.
I would not list number of source code lines or number of commits, because this is meaningless. Already a few lines of codes may mean a huge improvement, while a ton of other lines may not be that important. E.g. if someone checks in a lot of SVGs this definitely not as much work like a sophisticated algorithm dealing with geoprocessing. I don't think that developers really care about who contribute how many lines of codes - and if you are interested in that you can already look it up on github. They provide all sorts of fancy graphics. ---------- The whole discussion is not one against the other - and who gets the most recognition. It is simply about a multiplier effect. Say that a well-known organization like a province, a national mapping agency or well-known company is sponsoring a feature. This will surely help other organizations to fund other features. Right now some people/organizations may have the impression that QGIS is more or less all based on voluntary work, while we are currently moving more and more to paid work - which is good in my opinion. There is only that much you can do with voluntary work. QGIS already has surpassed a threshold in popularity and organizations rely on it that we can't support this all with voluntary work only. A lot of OS projects work this way: PostgreSQL, Linux, Apache, LibreOffice - the bulk of these projects are run by paid staff. But there is still the opportunity of voluntary work to be added. And who knows - you may start as a voluntary contributor and by your voluntary contributions you may have the opportunity to get paid contracts. Andreas Am 04.07.2014 07:07, schrieb Zoltan Szecsei: > Hi, > I've been following this thread with great interest. > > 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. > > I accept that it will be very difficult to measure one developer's > efforts against another, but surely they should get as much recognition > as the guys throwing money at this project? > > 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? > > Just a thought. > Regards to all, > Zoltan > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user