+1 to Rohit. I am new too and looking forward to help in cinder part of OpenStack for starters.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Rohit Vaidya <rohit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am new to open stack and python. But I really liked the live community > here and great suggestions that crop up. This one is seriously good and > helps new people stay motivated. I installed dev stack on my sluggish > laptop and that's all. Could not move any further. Looking forward to > taking the next step. Keep up with the good work people. > > Regards, > Rohit Vaidya > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, wu jiang <win...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1. This looks very interesting. :) >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com>wrote: >> >>> On 02/12/2014 11:35 AM, Ben Nemec wrote: >>> > On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote: >>> >> At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of >>> >> helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code >>> >> reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before >>> >> screaming in a chat room "can someone look at my branch". We want this >>> >> experience to be positive, but not everyone has time to hand-hold new >>> >> people in the dance. >>> >> >>> >> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we >>> >> should consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer >>> >> badges, quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to >>> >> being strong contributors? >>> >> >>> >> "Fixed your first bug" badge >>> >> "Updated the docs" badge >>> >> "Got your blueprint approved" badge >>> >> "Triaged a bug" badge >>> >> "Reviewed a branch" badge >>> >> "Contributed to 3 OpenStack projects" badge >>> >> "Fixed a Cells bug" badge >>> >> "Constructive in IRC" badge >>> >> "Freed the gate" badge >>> >> "Reverted branch from a core" badge >>> >> etc. >>> >> >>> >> These can be strung together as Quests to lead people along the path. >>> >> It's more than karma and less sterile than stackalytics. The >>> >> Foundation could even promote the rising stars and highlight the >>> >> leader board. >>> >> >>> >> There are gamification-as-a-service offerings out there [2] as well as >>> >> Fedora Badges [3] (python and open source) that we may want to >>> >> consider. >>> >> >>> >> Thoughts? >>> >> -Sandy >>> >> >>> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification >>> >> [2] http://gamify.com/ (and many others) >>> >> [3] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ >>> > >>> > +1 from me, if this can be done without a huge amount of ongoing >>> > maintenance for someone. I will admit that climbing the reviewstats >>> > "leaderboard" is good motivation for those days when I just don't feel >>> > like reviewing. Ditto for Launchpad karma. :-) >>> >>> I really like the badges idea. It sounds like a really fun way to >>> encourage folks. It's a refreshing alternative to just looking at raw >>> numbers all the time. >>> >>> -- >>> Russell Bryant >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Thanks, Ibad Khan 9686594607
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