[Obey M-F-T or die] Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have taken away from Debian development).
People register to play, and each month, all the players are given three randomly selected bugs to tackle. Points are awarded to those whose assigned bugs get fixed during that month, with the idea being that people would endeavour to ensure their bugs get fixed swiftly, by whatever means they can (closing spurious bug reports, sending patches to the BTS, making NMUs, harassing the maintainer, or whatever). Clearly some assigned bugs will be simpler than others, but difficulty should average out over time. Also, players with more time to spend on bugs can improve their position the next month by closing all the non-bugs they can find, so that less dedicated players are less likely to get easy bugs and thusly will score less. ;) This is far from a full set of rules; far more details were covered in the IRC discussion which spawned this. Lots of possible abuses were discussed, and solutions found, so please refrain from responding along those lines for now. The interface should be extremely simple - once you've signed up, all you have to do is to fix the bugs you get assigned, and a scoreboard will get posted to some mailing list on a regular basis. But, before I go implementing any of this, I want to know if people are interested. So, if you think you'd like to try it, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (From: addresses will be fed into the subscription system once it's set up; if you change your mind later, just ignore the confirmation message you get and it'll be the last you hear about it). If I get enough responses over the next few days, I'll write the formal rules and set up the scripts. If you have ideas for a better name, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Kudos to Richard Braakman for coming up with the idea and helping sketch out most of the details] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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