Ah, now I see the section on GitHub user home pages. Honestly if employers just take a glance at that they get what they deserve. I don't want to worry about this, there are enough real problems.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 8:48 AM Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > I was using points in a more generic sense, making your "contribution > activity overview" look nicer—I wasn't sure if "points" was an actual thing > or not, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn. Mine shows 70% of my actions are > code review, then issues, commits, and PRs are 10% each. > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:40 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> Where does it say that a review gives you points? The GitHub blog post I >> saw about the subject only mentions commits. >> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 8:16 AM Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:42 AM Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/30/22 04:45, Inada Naoki wrote: >>>> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 7:37 PM Irit Katriel < >>>> iritkatr...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Some people may do "approval without review" to make their "Profile" >>>> > page richer, because GitHub counts it as a contribution. >>>> > Creating spam issues or pull requests can be reported as spam very >>>> > easily. But "approve without review" is hard to be reported as spam. >>>> > So approving random issue is the most easy way to earn contributions >>>> > without reported as spam. >>>> >>>> Whnever there are metrics, some will find a way to game the system to >>>> make theirs look better - this certainly isn't limited to github, or to >>>> tech, or in any way a recent thing. >>>> >>> >>> Certainly true, and I think this is more of a social problem than a >>> technical one. If people are giving out review approvals to get more >>> points, you (where 'you' is a person with some privileges on the repo) can >>> click "dismiss review" and get rid of the noise, at least within that PR. >>> Maybe they still get points for the review, I'm not sure. Taking away the >>> ability for non-core contributors to offer official review approvals to >>> stop people like that only harms the people actually trying to do good work. >>> >>> Gaming the system doesn't end up working well in the end anyway. The >>> first time the gamers try to get a job interview and can't explain how >>> they'd do a code review—something GitHub says they've done hundreds or >>> thousands of times—the whole thing will fail. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >>> Message archived at >>> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/R3YU44XPWLBUWVLSYTTTWJZCSRRCB67F/ >>> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >>> >> >> >> -- >> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >> *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* >> <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/> >> > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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