> ----- Original message ----- > From: "Attila Csipa" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Meego-community] Karma decision > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:33:06 +0200 > > >On Thursday 06 May 2010 11:22:05 Dave Neary wrote: > > You would have the top bug triagists, the top QA testers, the top unit > > test writers, the top wiki editors, etc. Why try to merge everything > > into one, when each stands on its own merits? > > > > To take the analogy of baseball stats - you don't try to merge the > > various stats you can get (hits, bases, catches, home runs, etc, etc) > > into one figure to get the "best" baseball player, you evaluate what you > > need at a position, and then pick someone who does well in the criteria > > that are important for that position. > > Duh, I forgot the single most important thing - because in a community driven > environment there is no such thing as a position (except for the formal > WG/TSG ones). Employees have positions, baseball players have positions, but > community members in general don't. A per category top10 system focuses on > specialists, letting glue-people fall through the cracks. And these are the > people that can bridge gaps between the various facets of the community and > might easily have a better general understanding of it as a whole than any > single rockstar coder or triager. > > Regards, > Attila
Per Attilla's comment: how do we quantify contributions of project managers, facilitators, et al? There will be some activities not so easy to measure. "Thanks" counts (or maybe Thanks-to-post ratios) in the forum are certainly one useful soft measurement, but very broad. And blog posts are another that can be useful but we've had controversy over that too. I think for now instead of getting entangled again over the good and bad of an aggregated karma metric, we should instead first focus on contributing roles and how they can be measured. Randy -------------------------------------------------------------- Ovi Mail: Available in 20 languages http://mail.ovi.com _______________________________________________ Meego-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
