GSoC leaderboard

[lagfra]

> 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.