Re: Facilitating contributions by newcomers
Quoting Christian Kastner (2014-11-10 11:41:39)
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> > Are you guys thinking of something like the Fedora "badges" or Ubuntu
> > "accomplishments" ?
>
> I wasn't aware of these, and they certainly look very interesting.
>
> I didn't have this in mind when I wrote my original submission; I was
> only thinking in terms of tasks as steps to complete when working
> towards eventual DM or DD status.
>
> But I can see that rewarding individual tasks with badges and the like
> can have their appeal, especially for newcomers not yet having
> aspirations of becoming DM/DD, instead only wishing to contribute a
> little something back to Debian, even if it's just a one-off thing. I
> think rewarding contributions in this fashion is a great way to inspire
> an "I'm part of this" feeling in contributors.
As a side note, I have to point out that the Fedora badge infrastructure
is based on the fedmsg system, which means that we could probably
leverage that to get something working quickly.
That said, I haven't touched to fedmsg in a year, nor have I actually
looked at the code for the badge thingy. Maybe Nicolas (Cc-ed) knows
more about it ?
Cheers
Simon
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