Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from GitHub

Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by danieldk on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:29AM (#33313233)

I am surprised that there is no widely-spread Starware license yet. “You are entitled to use this software after starring X/Y on GitHub.”

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by wallmountedtv on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:20AM (#33313482)

"If You institute a revocation of a GitHub star against any entity (including cross-repository and cross-user removals) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work no longer constitutes a GitHub star, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate immediately as of the date such a revocation is performed."

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by mgdv on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:37AM (#33314531)

I've seen this on a lot of the hacktoberfest repos this year. The repo owner will only authorize the PR if you star them

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by gumby on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:48AM (#33314597)

And here I had just read the parent comments as sarcastic. Ugh.

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:33PM (#33349032)

At least you can revoke the star after the merge.

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