Also not a fan, its confusing and there’s an effort involved in coming up with a name, an artificial impediment to release cycles, and we have enough real ones.
B. > On 27 Oct 2014, at 16:45, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > I’m not a fan, but I won’t be in the way of this. > > Best > Jan > -- > >> On 27 Oct 2014, at 14:49 , Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> SUMMARY >> >> I'm currently working on the rewards for the CouchDB AdvocateHub. (See >> bottom of this email for a refresher.) >> >> One of the rewards I'd like to offer is the ability to "name" a >> CouchDB release. We'd mention the name in the release announcement and >> in the changelog. But otherwise, we'd continue to talk about releases >> using the release number. >> >> Primarily, I see it as a bit of fun. And a great way to reward advocates. >> >> I'm cross-posting this to dev and marketing because it's both a >> release management proposal as well as a marketing proposal. >> >> DETAILS >> >> The way I see it working: >> >> - Advocate redeems the "name a release" reward, and picks a name >> - The name is vetted by the PMC (for brand protection) and put on a queue >> - The next release picks the oldest name on the queue >> >> I'd probably actually want to separate this into three rewards: >> >> - Name a bugfix release >> - Name a minor release >> - Name a major release >> >> Each one would be require more points than the last. >> >> REFRESHER >> >> Our AdvocateHub is a professional tool that has been donated to us >> that will allow us to mobilise fans of CouchDB to talk about, promote, >> and advocate CouchDB to on social media, and to their network. For a >> project like ours, with limited to no financial budget for traditional >> marketing, this is a huge opportunity for us. >> >> The AdvocateHub has two important concepts (for the purposes of this >> email): challenges and rewards. Advocates complete challenges (like >> "leave a review" or "write a case-study") and in return, we give them >> points. Collect enough points, and they can redeem rewards. The >> rewards are a thank you helping to advocate CouchDB. >> >> RATIONALE >> >> There are four main categories of reward: >> >> - Stuff (t-shirts, mugs, tickets to conferences, etc) >> - Access (dinner with a committer, promotion on our blog, social media, etc) >> - Status (recognition on our website, hand written thank you note, etc) >> - Power (name a release, ... what else?) >> >> Struggling on the "power" category, because everything we do here is >> decided by the community. This category would be much easier to fill >> out if we were a regular business. But I figure that naming a release >> is a fun approach. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater >
