[maemo-community] [Proposal] - Developers should get karma based on the relevance of their software

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Valerio Valerio wrote:
> We need to reach a decision for this proposal[1].
> 
> "Currently it's easier to get plenty of karma blogging about apps,
> talking about apps and commenting bugs in apps... but at the end are the
> developers who carry with a lot of the hard work. Let's praise them!" -
> Quim Gil
> 
> There's already some good points/solutions in the brainstorm page and in
> the related discussion at TMO[1] (Warning a lot of 'sparks' there :) ).
> 
> IMO the solution with more potential so far is "#6 Measure existing
> userbase via updates"[3], of course it needs some tweaks[4][5].

One idea which hasn't been discussed is that we could increase
appplication development related karma, or reduce talk/blog/email
related karma, to give a bigger influence to application development.

In general, I think that using downloads has a few merits - notably,
it's the easiest to apply, which is a concern.

App karma is intended to measure relevance over time, so why not have it
added to maintainers karma (but then, the maintainers karma can/should
go down over time - is that OK?).

I see that Quim's already asked those questions in that Talk thread.

It seems to me like measuring the peak height is a bit trickier, and has
the same problem that the karma from the app can go up or down over time.

Cheers,
Dave.

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