<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Well stated. I think it is important
that OpenStack continue to be focussed on individuals contributing to the
community and not corporations.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There are plenty of metrics already
being compiled using e-mail addresses. In fact, I think the visibility
of 'sponsors' is already available as a result through websites like Stackalytics
(</font><a href=http://stackalytics.com/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://stackalytics.com/</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">)
. Highlighting the sponsors of individual commits seems unnecessary.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That's my two cents.</font>
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<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Nicolas Barcet <nicolas@barcet.com>,
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<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">OpenStack Development
Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>, openstack-tc@lists.openstack.org,
Boris Renski <brenski@mirantis.com>, Tristan Goode <tristan@aptira.com></font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">11/11/2013 09:58 AM</font>
<br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [openstack-dev]
[openstack-tc] Proposal to recognize indirect contributions to our code
base</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Hi Nick,<br>
<br>
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:20 +0100, Nicolas Barcet wrote:<br>
> Dear TC members,<br>
> <br>
> Our companies are actively encouraging our respective customers to
have the<br>
> patches they mission us to make be contributed back upstream. In
order to<br>
> encourage this behavior from them and others, it would be nice that
if<br>
> could gain some visibility as "sponsors" of the patches
in the same way we<br>
> get visibility as "authors" of the patches today.<br>
> <br>
> The goal here is not to provide yet another way to count affiliations
of<br>
> direct contributors, nor is it a way to introduce sales pitches in
contrib.<br>
> The only acceptable and appropriate use of the proposal we are
making is<br>
> to signal when a patch made by a contributor for another comany than
the<br>
> one he is currently employed by.<br>
> <br>
> For example if I work for a company A and write a patch as part of
an<br>
> engagement with company B, I would signal that Company B is the sponsor
of<br>
> my patch this way, not Company A. Company B would under current<br>
> circumstances not get any credit for their indirect contribution to
our<br>
> code base, while I think it is our intent to encourage them to contribute,<br>
> even indirectly.<br>
> <br>
> To enable this, we are proposing that the commit text of a patch may<br>
> include a<br>
> sponsored-by: <sponsorname><br>
> line which could be used by various tools to report on these commits.<br>
> Sponsored-by should not be used to report on the name of the
company the<br>
> contributor is already affiliated to.<br>
<br>
Honestly, I've an immediately negative reaction to the prospect of e.g.<br>
<br>
Sponsored-By: Red Hat<br>
Sponsored-By: IBM<br>
<br>
appearing in our commit messages.<br>
<br>
I feel strongly that the project is first and foremost a community of<br>
individuals and we instinctively push as much of corporate backing side<br>
of things outside of the project. We try to spend as little time as<br>
possible talking about our affiliations as possible.<br>
<br>
And, IMHO, the git commit log is particularly sacred ground - almost<br>
above anything else, it is a place for purely technical details.<br>
<br>
However, I do think we'll be able to figure out some way of making it<br>
easier for tools to track more complex affiliations.<br>
<br>
Our affiliation databases are all keyed off email addresses right now,<br>
so how about if we allowed for encoding affiliation/sponsorship in<br>
addresses? e.g.<br>
<br>
Author: Mark McLoughlin <markmc+ibm@redhat.com><br>
<br>
and we could register that address as "work done by Mark on behalf
of<br>
IBM" ?<br>
<br>
Mark.<br>
<br>
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