On 02/12/2014 11:35 AM, Ben Nemec wrote: > 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. :-)
I really like the badges idea. It sounds like a really fun way to encourage folks. It's a refreshing alternative to just looking at raw numbers all the time. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
