[core-workflow] Tracker workflow proposal

[Antoine Pitrou]

On mer., 2014-04-23 at 15:27 +0300, Ezio Melotti wrote:
> By having badges/trophies that are not easily abused.
> For example having "Submit 10 patches in one day" is unrealistic and
> will likely push whoever wants to get this to either hold off his
> patches and submit them at once or to produce 10 poor-quality patches.
> Having "Triage 100 issues" is less prone to abusing IMHO, because even
> if someone is doing some extra work to try to reach the goal, I don't
> think this will affect the quality of the work.

Why don't you think so?
We actually all know how easy it is to be extremely dumb at triaging,
since there has been a well-known example on the tracker (I won't
mention his name out of charity, but he thought he was being very
productive).

You should read this before you think awards (badges, trophies...) don't
have any negative effects:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html

(well, of course, the author, Joel Spolsky, is also the co-founder of
Stack Overflow... the other co-founder shortly explains his take on
gamification here: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-gamification/ ; as
that article shows, he was solving a different problem than ours,
though: namely, that web forums usually have a poor S/N ratio)

Regards

Antoine.