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 Cour

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 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

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 US

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

2013-11-13 Thread Robert Collins
On 14 November 2013 13:34, 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). > > What I see as a great thing is the increasing number [and diversity] of >

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

2013-11-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
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 may think, Companies are

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

2013-11-13 Thread Colin McNamara
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). What I see as a great thing is the increasing number [and diversity] of companies committing, especially from end user/operators. I

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 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 t

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

2013-11-13 Thread Jay Pipes
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 mission us to make be contributed back upstream. In order to encourage thi

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

2013-11-13 Thread Jay Pipes
On 11/11/2013 12:27 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: On 11/11/2013 12:09 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: What about something with attribution in the docs for the feature? Can we play around with that a while? Attribution is going to have to be incorporated better into the docs for the CC By licensing anyway. A

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

2013-11-13 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 21:16 +, Stangel, Dan wrote: > 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: > > line which could be used by various tools to report on these commits

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: > line which could be used by various tools to report on these commits. > Sponsored-by should not be used to report on the name of the c

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

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: > 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 giving cred

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 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 upstream. In o

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

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
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 upstream. In order to > encourage this behavior from them and others, it would b

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

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:27:35PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 11/11/2013 12:09 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: > > What about something with attribution in the docs for the feature? Can > > we play around with that a while? Attribution is going to have to be > > incorporated better into the docs for

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

2013-11-11 Thread Russell Bryant
On 11/11/2013 12:09 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: > What about something with attribution in the docs for the feature? Can > we play around with that a while? Attribution is going to have to be > incorporated better into the docs for the CC By licensing anyway. Any > thoughts on docs as placement for "Thi

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 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 would be nice t

[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