On 22 February 2012 08:16, Stuart Bishop <stuart.bis...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> If we did kill karma, I'd lobby to keep the list of karma earning >> actions at ~/+karma; the most useful aspect of karma, to my mind. >> >> If the karma score went away, but we kept the activity list, would >> anyone miss it? > > I've always said if we want an activity list, we should implement an > activity list. Karma events are a rather poor implementation of an > activity log.
+100 more. If Launchpad has any kind of commitment to a "fewer but better" policy, Karma numbers are an obvious thing to kill. > Strangely enough, it does motivate quite a lot of people. Or at least it > did... I am not convinced it motivates the most productive people. People who do look at it are commonly annoyed or upset by its arbitrariness and lack of correlation with real work. At least one person ragequit Launchpad because they were so poorly scored in their own project. Robert's case of "is this person a productive contributor?" I think is handled quite well, probably better than Karma, by <https://google.com/search?q="william+grant"+site:launchpad.net> because that gives you both a number and a link to their actual activities, so you can see if they do stuff or are just a noisebot. You can also narrow to particular packages etc. That's what I'd do if I was assessing someone. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
