I¹m kind of new in Openstack. +1 to this
On 12/02/14 15:00, "Sandy Walsh" <[email protected]> wrote: >At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of >helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code >reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before screaming >in a chat room "can someone look at my branch". We want this experience >to be positive, but not everyone has time to hand-hold new people in the >dance. > >The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we >should consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer >badges, quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to >being strong contributors? > >"Fixed your first bug" badge >"Updated the docs" badge >"Got your blueprint approved" badge >"Triaged a bug" badge >"Reviewed a branch" badge >"Contributed to 3 OpenStack projects" badge >"Fixed a Cells bug" badge >"Constructive in IRC" badge >"Freed the gate" badge >"Reverted branch from a core" badge >etc. > >These can be strung together as Quests to lead people along the path. >It's more than karma and less sterile than stackalytics. The Foundation >could even promote the rising stars and highlight the leader board. > >There are gamification-as-a-service offerings out there [2] as well as >Fedora Badges [3] (python and open source) that we may want to consider. > >Thoughts? >-Sandy > >[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification >[2] http://gamify.com/ (and many others) >[3] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
