On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:46:16AM +0200, Gerber G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) "To measure is to know": Is it possible to provide a web page > showing more statistical plots about various aspects of the project? > (e.g. A bar plot of Number of RC-bugs vs Age of RC-bugs; Another page > could even group the links to RC-bugs having the same age. Or a plot > of number of serious-bugs vs time). People interested in the > Debian-project can then very easily interpret the current health/state > of the project as a whole.
That's something interested people are doing right now to various degrees. Keeping up with the Debian Weekly News normally leads you to the gems. > 2) Motivational: I do not know what type of funds the project has, but > how about rewarding good package maintainers by implementing a biased > lottery? The lottery could implement a point system. Each person > starts of with a number of points. For each RC-bug more than (2 > months?) old a point is subtracted from the maintainer. During the > lottery everybody is eligible, but those having more points have a > better probability of winning. The prizes naturally depends on the > funds available, but could include a new computer or something > similar. (P.S. The chances of winning something here will be much > greater than winning the national lottery) Somebody hashed out the 'kill-a-bug'-game, where interested people would get a random bug assigned which they'd have to fix (in whatever way) ASAP, getting scores. That never went into production, though. Generally, I don't think money is a good incentive for winners, but rather cool stuff like T-Shirts, swirl-mousepads[1], and travel vouchers for the next debconf. > 3) Marketability: Does Debian have a nice cd-label for sarge, that > could be stuck on a cd? Does it have a design for the software box, > that contains the cd's? There are probably people who would be willing > to print these images and package the software in it. (Products are > unfortunately also judged by the way that they are packaged) That's something everybody can do and we're very much in need of. We definetely welcome good pieces of debian-related art, and having 'official' CD-covers would be very nice. Interested people should take care to license their art under a license that allows us to distribute it in the spirit of Debian, though. Michael [1] I thought that big red[2] swirls on a white background would make really cool mousepads. Are those avaiable somewhere? [2] What exact color is our swirl?
