On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote:
At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of
helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code
reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before
screaming in a chat room "can someone look at my branch". We want this
experience to be positive, but not everyone has time to hand-hold new
people in the dance.
The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we
should consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer
badges, quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to
being strong contributors?
"Fixed your first bug" badge
"Updated the docs" badge
"Got your blueprint approved" badge
"Triaged a bug" badge
"Reviewed a branch" badge
"Contributed to 3 OpenStack projects" badge
"Fixed a Cells bug" badge
"Constructive in IRC" badge
"Freed the gate" badge
"Reverted branch from a core" badge
etc.
These can be strung together as Quests to lead people along the path.
It's more than karma and less sterile than stackalytics. The
Foundation could even promote the rising stars and highlight the
leader board.
There are gamification-as-a-service offerings out there [2] as well as
Fedora Badges [3] (python and open source) that we may want to
consider.
Thoughts?
-Sandy
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification
[2] http://gamify.com/ (and many others)
[3] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/
+1 from me, if this can be done without a huge amount of ongoing
maintenance for someone. I will admit that climbing the reviewstats
"leaderboard" is good motivation for those days when I just don't feel
like reviewing. Ditto for Launchpad karma. :-)
-Ben
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