Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-14 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 13/11/13 17:20 -0800, Stefano Maffulli wrote: On 11/13/2013 04:34 PM, Colin McNamara wrote: Not to be contrarian, but 92% of the commits in Havana came from non-individual contributions. The majority of those came from big name companies (IBM, RedHat, etc). ow, that's harsh. Despite what

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-14 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 13/11/13 17:22 -0700, John Griffith wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/11/2013 12:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:20:20PM +0100, Nicolas Barcet wrote: Dear TC members, Our companies are actively encouraging our

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-14 Thread Thierry Carrez
Stefano Maffulli wrote: On 11/13/2013 04:34 PM, Colin McNamara wrote: Not to be contrarian, but 92% of the commits in Havana came from non-individual contributions. The majority of those came from big name companies (IBM, RedHat, etc). ow, that's harsh. Despite what US Supreme Court Judges

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-13 Thread Stangel, Dan
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:20 +0100, Nicolas Barcet wrote: To enable this, we are proposing that the commit text of a patch may include a sponsored-by: sponsorname line which could be used by various tools to report on these commits. Sponsored-by should not be used to report on the name

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-13 Thread John Griffith
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/11/2013 12:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:20:20PM +0100, Nicolas Barcet wrote: Dear TC members, Our companies are actively encouraging our respective customers to have the patches they

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-12 Thread Thierry Carrez
Nicolas Barcet wrote: [...] To enable this, we are proposing that the commit text of a patch may include a sponsored-by: sponsorname line which could be used by various tools to report on these commits. [...] This proposal raises several questions. (1) Is it a good idea to allow

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 11/12/2013 01:58 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: This proposal raises several questions. (1) Is it a good idea to allow giving credit to patch sponsors On one hand, this encourages customers of OpenStack service companies to fund sending back bugfixes and features upstream. Does it? I'm

[openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-11 Thread Nicolas Barcet
Dear TC members, Our companies are actively encouraging our respective customers to have the patches they mission us to make be contributed back upstream. In order to encourage this behavior from them and others, it would be nice that if could gain some visibility as sponsors of the patches in

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-11 Thread Anne Gentle
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Nicolas Barcet nico...@barcet.com wrote: Dear TC members, Our companies are actively encouraging our respective customers to have the patches they mission us to make be contributed back upstream. In order to encourage this behavior from them and others, it

Re: [openstack-dev] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code base

2013-11-11 Thread John Griffith
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:20:20PM +0100, Nicolas Barcet wrote: Dear TC members, Our companies are actively encouraging our respective customers to have the patches they mission us to make be contributed back