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

[From: Valerio Valerio]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

The idea is keep the highest peak all the time, so the karma never goes
down.

Best regards,

-- 
Valério Valério

http://www.valeriovalerio.org



> Cheers,
> Dave.
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