On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 11:56:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
In my summary of last month's D Language Foundation meeting, I
mentioned that we discussed a system intended to reward
contributors who contribute pull requests that fix Bugzilla
issues. This was Razvan Nitu's baby from conception to
implementation, and we all think it is a great idea.
The system has been running in the background for a few weeks
now, quietly gathering data and awarding points, proving that
the programming side works as intended. Our first round of
point scoring kicks off on September 20th. Razvan has put
together a blog post explaining how the system works.
We'll revise and adapt the system as needed as time goes by. In
the meantime, happy bug fixing!
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/09/16/bugzilla-reward-system/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/ppbp7d/bugzilla_reward_system/
This is a good move, I hope it will work so that D will keep
contributors that are not already gone and gain new talented ones.
Another answer mentions that the lack of "issue triage" might
cause problems.
I think to the opposite that this system could encourage
1. better triage
2. better reviews
But well, we'll see if this works next year. Let's not be
negative ;)
