[maemo-developers] QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:29, Andrew Flegg wrote:

> Jeremiah wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2009, at 19:25, Tim Teulings wrote:
>>
>>> P.S.: Don't trust my version numbers! Trust my checkbox choice!
>>
>> That is totally fine with me. I thought a version number was less
>> intrusive, developers didn't have to do anything, just remember which
>> part of their version to change. But as version numbers are so
>> invariant an excellent argument against this has been presented.
>
> Agreed. It seemed like a nice hack, but isn't going to work in  
> practice.
>
>> Shall we put a checkbox by the package promotion page, or somewhere
>> where we remember, which keeps all accrued karma?
>
> That's probably a good first step, however I wonder if long term  
> something like Marius suggested might be better: remaining karma for  
> an app is...
>
>   * proportional to current app karma
>   * proportional to developer's karma
>   * proportional to testers' karma
>   * inversely proportional to the time between
>     last build and this build.
>
> This'd mean that if I released an app and had it voted up by Ryan,  
> Tim, Daniel, Quim and a few others on the first karma page; and I  
> released a new version the next day (short time => probable bug  
> fix); my app might only lose one or two points.
>
> Maybe this works for time too (or vote by high roller reduces time?)  
> Or maybe it's just too complicated?

This is cool, and I think it could be done, but the karma calculation  
algos are starting to be a little complicated.

Jeremiah