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"Small" omission in the credits web page

2007-06-28
2012-11-18
  • ion vasilief

    ion vasilief - 2007-06-28

    Hello,

    I quote from the code credits on your web site:

    "The following people have written parts of SciDAVis, ranging from a few lines to large chunks. In alphabetical order.

    Shen Chen, Borries Demeler, José Antonio Lorenzo Fernández, Knut Franke, Vasileios Gkanis, Gudjon Gudjonsson, Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen, Alex Kargovsky, Michael Mac-Vicar, Tomomasa Ohkubo, Aaron Van Tassle, Branimir Vasilic, Ion Vasilief, Vincent Wagelaar"

    If you want it to be closer to the truth, it should look like:

    "The following people have written the code of SciDAVis:

    Ion Vasilief: more then 90%
    Knut Franke: about 8%

    The rest of 2%:

    Shen Chen, Borries Demeler, José Antonio Lorenzo Fernández, Vasileios Gkanis, Gudjon Gudjonsson, Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen, Alex Kargovsky, Michael Mac-Vicar, Tomomasa Ohkubo, Aaron Van Tassle, Branimir Vasilic, Vincent Wagelaar"

    Of course, I don't suppose you'll modify your web page in order to reflect the reality...
    Ion Vasilief

     
    • Tilman Benkert

      Tilman Benkert - 2007-06-28

      Hello Ion,

      welcome to the SciDAVis forums!

      What algorithm did you use for your calculation of the percentages? I think you
      are pretty accurate about Knut contributing 8% of the code. Here is my
      calculation:

      Developer/number of commits/percentage since SVN repos creation:
      ion_vasilief/279/44.78%
      thzs/223/35.79%
      knut/88/14.13%
      kargo/21/3.37%
      rogerg/11/1.77%
      gudjon/1/0.16%

      Of course that does not include your work from 2004 to May 2006. The time
      you have been working on QtiPlot before Knut and I joined and the SVN repository was
      created is about twice the time the SVN repos has been in existence now.
      So 3x279 commits should be a good estimate for your work. That yields:
      ion_vasilief/837/70,9%
      thzs/223/18,9%
      knut/88/7,5%

      Anyway, we are not planing to put any developer statistics on the web
      page. But if you post your algorithm, everyone can
      calculate it for himself.

      Best regards,
      Tilman

       
    • Robert

      Robert - 2007-12-17

      Ion,

      Your efforts are highly regarded by the users. You have created a very competent product for the community to use. Thanks!

      However, I do have a differ with your policy of "annual maintenance contracts" for Qtiplot. Your definition of open source, while may be legally correct (I don't know though), reminds me of Bill Clinton's definition of "it".

      rsiddle

       
    • ion vasilief

      ion vasilief - 2007-12-21

      rsiddle, 

      You thank me...

      ...but however you say, I rephrase your message: "I don't like your methods, Ion, they might not even be legal"! So you thank me first and in the next phrase you tell me that I'm maybe not honest! I see a "small" contradiction here!

      Now, let's put it differently: you don't like my policy about binaries, however you're using my code/work. Isn't tthat a nice proof that my policy works for all users?

      You might say that you're using SciDavis, not QtiPlot! Well, judging from last changes to the SciDavis SVN repository, SciDavis still makes good use of my improvements and bug fixes in the QtiPlot code...

      Do you think that, if I wouldn't earn a little bit of money from my work on QtiPlot, I would be motivated to work hundreds of hours on it? Would you go to your office 8 hours a day without a salary in exchange?

      I sincerely doubt that a developer working only from time to time, for pleasure, would have created a QtiPlot equivalent software in the same amount of time as me. Just see how "fast" SciDavis advances...

      Ion

       

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