On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:24:59 +0200
Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I think it's a *very* bad idea - both from a QA and a "team spirit"
> point of view.
> Instead of having such "commitfests" and bounties f
Mike Doty wrote:
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Just a random thought that popped into my head:
We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in
some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a
little something too. Then the person with
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:43:34 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| fixing the mess left by others (given we could commit slightly off
| stuff in 8 hours) is a pretty equivalent way to raise the commits
| level.
Fixing the mess left by others is a lot harder than making a mess to
begin wi
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:44:50 -0700
"Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not the commits that should be encouraged - it's the
> bug fixing, and GWN section on bugzilla stats is pretty good.
Actually, bug fixing, i.e. closing bugs, is not representative of the
work you put
I was going to reply to this, but I think Tobias just said everything I
was planning to. The first sentence in particular.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:24:59 +0200
Tobias Scherbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I think it's a
> I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
>
> Thoughts?
I think it's a *very* bad idea - both from a QA and a "team spirit"
point of view.
Instead of having such "commitfests" and bounties for the one who
managed to get as many as possible commits done within - say - 5 minutes
I'd ra
Luca Barbato wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
It's offering incentives to get as many commits as possible. The
easiest way to get as many commits as possible is to go on a mass
keywording or stabling spree. It'd be very easy for someone to do a
Manson -- do you really think no-one would? Even if n
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
> It's offering incentives to get as many commits as possible. The
> easiest way to get as many commits as possible is to go on a mass
> keywording or stabling spree. It'd be very easy for someone to do a
> Manson -- do you really think no-one would? Even if no-one does t
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging peop
So, are you proposing to encourage people to do commits for
the sake of commits? Make people do revbumps/keywording
just to get their commits in, without doing proper testing?
Or to hold on number of commits till commitfest?
It's not the commits that should be encouraged - it's the
bug fixing, and
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:17:08 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > wrote:
| > | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
| >
| > I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
>
> I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging people to commit
> broken stuff.
How exactly does it do that?
Thanks,
Donnie
signatu
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging people to commit
broken stuff.
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Mike Doty wrote:
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Just a random thought that popped into my head:
We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in
some small amount
Mike Doty wrote:
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> Thoughts?
>
- hall of fame is nice, money isn't
- we all know that Flameeyes and vapier will be at the top =)
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On Friday 20 October 2006 22:08, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> /me can see the kde team (flameeyes) holding off on committing a new
> release until a commit fest :/
No need for a new release..
Transforming all the patches to pachsets, removing an old version, changing a
variable name ... there's a lot of s
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:42:43PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
> money--
++
As said in some other mail, stats in GWN or something like that would
be nice - kloeri already did some nice graphs (see planet).
> We aren't all on the same currency and everyone is volunteers.
You're just jealous because
On 2006.10.20 21:00, Mike Doty wrote:
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Just a random thought that popped into my head:
We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks
in
some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a
little something too.
On Friday 20 October 2006 14:15, Michael Crute wrote:
> How about beer? Thats where all the money goes anyhow ;-)
I'm sure that recruiters would have a beautiful time trying to keep up with
the new developer requests.
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Gentoo Developer aka:
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On 10/20/06, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Just a random thought that popped into my head:
We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in
some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a
little some
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:00:26PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote:
> Just a random thought that popped into my head:
>
> We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in
> some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a
> little something too. Then the person wi
On 20-10-2006 15:00:26 -0500, Mike Doty wrote:
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> Just a random thought that popped into my head:
>
> We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in
> some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a
S
On 10/20/06, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Just a random thought that popped into my head:
We could have a commit fest where everyone who wants to compete kicks in
some small amount of money(say $5) maybe the foundation kicks in a
little some
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