“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”

Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by duxup on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:13AM (#27631003)

I like this idea, but the gamification / rules / meta around it sounds like it would be even more work. And like all metrics it would quickly become a target and... Goodhart's law.

This is one of those ideas that I think should totally be a thing, and yet I think wouldn't work and thus shouldn't be a thing.

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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by newsclues on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:24AM (#27631127)

I’m not knowledgeable enough to define what good work looks like but, simply, whenever maintainers see good work, give that user a golden star.

People will work for the carrot, so give carrots for the work maintainers want to see.

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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by PixelOfDeath on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:17AM (#27631853)

Then you get them into trying to get their own people into maintainer positions to let the golden stars flow. Maybe also be more hesitant to give out this starts to the "wrong" people from other companies. Not like there already is enough politic bullshit in open source.

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