On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been strongly encouraging new students starting out with Sage > to make small (initially) patches on their very own ticket, so that > they can feel good when these get reviewed positively and then merged. > But those same people might take quite a while longer before they > feel confident about reviewing others people's tickets. > > It's usually a long time after one has started submitting papers for > publication that one starts to get requests for refereeing other > papers -- not that long, but a while. Isn't that similar? >
Yes. The main intent of what I'm suggesting is that people who are contributing a *lot* of code, but not doing any reviewing, will be very, very strongly encouraged to do more reviewing. -- William > > On 14 April 2010 20:01, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> > I think something as simple as sorting the "tickets needing review" by >>> > author karma would be useful without being overly complicated or formal. >>> > The >>> >>> Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. If somebody referees a >>> lot of patches, then they automatically get singled out as "somebody >>> whose code contributions are extra deserving of reviews". >>> >> >> This seems reasonable, especially if it stays relatively unobtrusive. >> It would be bad to punish those who contribute great patches but only >> have time to contribute, not necessarily review, and could motivate >> reviewers who don't or can't often contribute to critical fixes but >> would like their work added to the base. >> >> In the end, though, one would have to see how it worked. If this >> ordering trumped the current "urgency" ordering and then things that >> were urgent didn't get reviewed, that would be bad, too. >> >>> >> cannot earn review points and cannot get his code in. On the other >>> >> hand, others collect a lot of review points but do not code. So, there >>> >> must be a way to trade points... !? >> >> Everything is fungible, you mean... maybe we could trade them for WoW >> money. Or maybe it could be Sage points, like AMS points, and you >> could use them to get a free copy of Sage. >> >> - kcrisman >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org >> >> To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >> > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
