+1. This looks very interesting. :)
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 >
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