On Thursday 06 May 2010 08:08:16 Quim Gil wrote: > The main question is: why do you need karma or ranks? If it's for > incentivating people then ranks per tool do a lot of the trick. Look > some potential examples. > > - I'm into testing. I score well in bugzilla, being 7th and with a trend > moving to 6th. I'm happy.
... > - I'm into marketing. The MeeGo shirt I designed was the most voted, now > it's in The Linux Foundation shop and everybody will get one for free at > the MeeGo Conference. As a prize I'm invited to 3 MeeGo events this > year. I'm happy. TBH, I don't see any difference between these examples and the karma we had/have on Maemo. The only difference is the Maemo one is done by engineering types who like mathematical formulas, and this one is a verbal formulation of the same thing (and with the same drawbacks). The only real objection was so far that of cross-referencing karma across different contribution categories, but that's on shaky legs, too. Who's to say one persons 100 flamewar mailing list posts are worth more than 10 wise and platform-changing mails, or that 100 wiki edits or bug reports are worth more than 10 other ones (not to mention trolls thanking trolls on forums). If you don't want to call it karma, cool - it even sounds to me a bit like the MeeGo equivalent of geek code[1]. However, that doesn't remove any of the drawbacks of the karma system. If you start trying to quantify, it doesn't matter what you call it (in fact, what you describe is almost a carbon copy of the karma-pool suggestion we had on Maemo in the very thread you cited). If you want to get away from that, cool, but at one point you WILL have to make sponsorship/WG/etc choices, so back to square one. Regards, Attila [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code _______________________________________________ Meego-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
