Do you expect anything else from the community to recognize a
contribution other than committing it to the code line? Once there is a
steady flow of quality contributions, the community/PMC will recognize a
contributor by making that contributor a committer.
Thank you,
Vlad
On 9/12/17 13:05, Sanjay Pujare wrote:
For a vendor too, quality ought to be as important as security so I don't
think we disagree on the cost benefit analysis. But I get your drift.
By "creative incentive" I didn't imply any material incentive (although a
gift card would be nice :-)) but more along the lines of what a community
can do to recognize such contribution.
Sanjay
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Vlad Rozov <vro...@apache.org> wrote:
I guess we have a different view on the benefit and cost definition. For
me the benefit of fixing CI build, flaky unit test, severe security issue
is huge for the community and is possibly small (except for a security
issues) for a vendor.
By "creative" I hope you don't mean that other community members, users
and customers send a contributor a gift cards to compensate for the cost
:). For me PR that is blocked on a failed CI build is sufficiently
incentive for a contributor to look into why it fails and fixing it.
Thank you,
Vlad
On 9/11/17 23:58, Sanjay Pujare wrote:
I don't want to speak for others and I don't want to generalize. But an
obvious answer could be "cost-benefit analysis".
In any case we should come up with a creative way to "incentivize" members
to do these tasks.
