Where does it say that a review gives you points? The GitHub blog post I saw about the subject only mentions commits.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 8:16 AM Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:42 AM Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > >> On 1/30/22 04:45, Inada Naoki wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 7:37 PM Irit Katriel < >> iritkatr...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > Some people may do "approval without review" to make their "Profile" >> > page richer, because GitHub counts it as a contribution. >> > Creating spam issues or pull requests can be reported as spam very >> > easily. But "approve without review" is hard to be reported as spam. >> > So approving random issue is the most easy way to earn contributions >> > without reported as spam. >> >> Whnever there are metrics, some will find a way to game the system to >> make theirs look better - this certainly isn't limited to github, or to >> tech, or in any way a recent thing. >> > > Certainly true, and I think this is more of a social problem than a > technical one. If people are giving out review approvals to get more > points, you (where 'you' is a person with some privileges on the repo) can > click "dismiss review" and get rid of the noise, at least within that PR. > Maybe they still get points for the review, I'm not sure. Taking away the > ability for non-core contributors to offer official review approvals to > stop people like that only harms the people actually trying to do good work. > > Gaming the system doesn't end up working well in the end anyway. The first > time the gamers try to get a job interview and can't explain how they'd do > a code review—something GitHub says they've done hundreds or thousands of > times—the whole thing will fail. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/R3YU44XPWLBUWVLSYTTTWJZCSRRCB67F/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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