Bug#251218: /devel/people gives recognition for quantity of packages, not quality
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
The http://www.debian.org/devel/people page gives maintainers recognition
for the quantity of packages they maintain, not for their quality. I think
this reinforces the wrong motives in developers. I'm all for giving
developers recognition for their contribution to Debian, but let it be for
making Debian better, not larger.
I'm hazy on what the best solution is, so what follows are some ideas to get
started thinking about the problem. Please don't be diverted by my
implementation suggestions. I'll be happy with any improvement that
solves the problem of recognition of the quality of developers' contributions,
and am not particularly attached to any one of the following suggestions.
Perhaps either drop the package listings altogether, or replace them with
links to the appropriate http://qa.debian.org/developer.php page.
Or conversely, merge some statistics from the developer.php page back into
the /devel/people page (e.g. overall bug resolve rate, overall outstanding
RC bugs, or whatever reasonable stats summarizing quality could be distilled
from developer.php without cluttering up /devel/people). However, I expect
this approach to be rather contentious, as people will complain about how
those numbers are unfairly biased. But the current list of all packages is
biased towards quantity, so if it's a matter of choosing one set of biased
statistics over another, I'd rather see stats that attempt to measure package
quality than quantity.
Thanks,
Ben Armstrong
--
syrng at debian dot org
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