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 _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
