I was using points in a more generic sense, making your "contribution activity overview" look nicer—I wasn't sure if "points" was an actual thing or not, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn. Mine shows 70% of my actions are code review, then issues, commits, and PRs are 10% each.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:40 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > 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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