GSoC leaderboard

lagfra me at fragal.eu
Fri Mar 22 18:35:34 UTC 2019


On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 12:47:18 UTC, Seb wrote:
> If we make it a requirement for them to be on to be on the 
> leaderboard (i.e. one open PR) this could lead to the effect 
> that they see all the other students who are trying to apply 
> and try even harder to fix bugs. At least that's what I think 
> this gamification approach is trying to go for.

A similar, but less competitive approach would be to ask 
applicants to solve one
easy bug (or perform one of the "easy tasks" listed in 
https://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved).
In this case a simple list of bugs solved or contributions 
performed would be
sufficient, and everybody would start from the same point (e.g. 
one bug closed
each). The Libreoffice Foundation is one of the organizations 
which uses this
approach (calling them "easy hacks").

Of course gamification could benefit the number of bugs fixed, 
but IMHO it could
introduce lower quality code and result in a lot of noise which 
would need to be
managed by some mentor / mantainer.


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