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

[From: Henri Bergius]

Hi,

2009/12/1 Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org>:
> 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.

At the moment Karma looks at applications developer has contributed to
Maemo Downloads and their ratings. So, higher rated app gives more
score, and each Maemo version the app is available for is counted
separately.

However, there are other factors we should look at:

* Maemo Extras upload activity (how many builds, how far those builds
went, what votes they got)
* Download numbers of applications as a factor used next to ratings
* Ohloh kudos would give a wider "appreciation rating" in the free
software world (http://www.ohloh.net/about/kudos)
* Maemo Extras testing activity (voting, comments)
* Maybe we could also dig up commits on Garage

> Dave.

/Henri

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