[Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi, Having a look at the (awesome) changelog [1] I noticed the "Author" tag. It looks to me, that this tag mentions the author of the changelog description, but it can easily be mistaken for the author of the feature (at least that's what I expected first when looking at it). While I am extrem

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Matthias Kuhn
And here goes the link: [1] http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/21/ ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Matthias On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > Hi, > > Having a look at the (awesome) changelog [1] I noticed the "Author" tag. > It looks to me, that this tag mentions the author of the changelog > description, but it can easily be mistaken for the author of the feature >

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Nyall Dawson
> PS any ideas / bugs are welcome - simply drop them onto our backlog at > https://waffle.io/timlinux/projecta Tim, What do you think about adding a "Funded by" attribute to changelog entries? Ideally this would be with an optional url link to the companies website. Nyall ___

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Tim and I had a chat about that too. The main issue is it ignores all the people that put in a lot of work for free. Nathan On 19/01/2014 7:45 am, "Nyall Dawson" wrote: > > PS any ideas / bugs are welcome - simply drop them onto our backlog at > > https://waffle.io/timlinux/projecta > > Tim, >

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > PS any ideas / bugs are welcome - simply drop them onto our backlog at > > https://waffle.io/timlinux/projecta > > Tim, > > What do you think about adding a "Funded by" attribute to changelog > entries? Ideally this would be with an op

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-18 Thread Ramon AndiƱach
Well, if you really wanted a feature like that, you could: 1. link it to the person who donated their time's personal page if they've got one (or a page of their choice if they don't). 2. Have a generic "Time" logo/label and state that it was paid for by a donation of this person's time. In an

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-19 Thread Martin Dobias
Hi On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: > > I don't mind too much - though I have a similar problem in that many of us > donate large amounts of time to the project which is essentially 'funding' > too that goes unacknowledged. I agree with Tim. There are so many other things that

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-19 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Author is removed now from the public view. Thanks Tim On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > Hi, > > Having a look at the (awesome) changelog [1] I noticed the "Author" tag. > It looks to me, that this tag mentions the author of the changelog > description, but it can ea

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-19 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 19/01/2014 17:30, Martin Dobias ha scritto: > I agree with Tim. There are so many other things that people in QGIS > community do - +1 > We should probably agree on a policy about the right way of giving credit to > organizations that fund devel

Re: [Qgis-developer] Changelog: Misleading "Author" tag

2014-01-20 Thread Anita Graser
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 19/01/2014 17:30, Martin Dobias ha scritto: >> We should probably agree on a policy about the right way of giving credit to >> organizations that fund development. Recently in source code there I have >> some >> mentions of funding in c