On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:50 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 06/04/2021 01:56, Justin Mclean wrote: > > <snip/> > > > Depending on the badges it might also easy to game. e.g. if I need 100 > commits to get a badge, then I’m going to make lots of small commute rather > than one big one. If there a badge for emails send to lest then I’m going > to send more emails. I ‘m not sure that this would bee a positive gain for > the community In my experience if you send 100 not-useful commits to appear active on an ASF project you will a) have your commits rejected b) potentially kick banned from the project for the extra overhead on the other volunteers That being said, the badge doesn’t have to show how many commits you have or how active you are in the project, just that you’re on the project and your role. > > > +1 - I have similar concerns. > > Now, if there was a way to take advantage of people's tendency to want > more badges / a higher score to encourage behaviour that is a positive > benefit to the community then that could be very interesting. I am > thinking along the lines of Stackoverflow's reputation (although I > recognise that that is not without issues). The biggest challenge is > that it would need to work with mailing lists. Please elaborate, how would it need to work with mailing lists? > > > Maybe get a project, or a small number of projects, involved to run > pilots of various schemes to see what works and what does not. Good idea. Where do we build a PoC for an Infra service? Can anyone from infra shed light? > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- Thank you, Matthew
