Fedora Developer Ranking System v1

[Havoc Pennington]

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> I suspect a points system would be good, but we could perhaps improve on 
> this...
> 
> - Points in itself is not a hard indicator of merit or promotion 
> eligibility, just a strong hint of the contributor's value to the project.
> - Earning points is logarithmic.  You shouldn't earn a super high score 
> by doing an inordinate amount of one thing.  Points should perhaps 
> reward doing different things more than plenty of the same thing.
> - Points shouldn't be just for Bugzilla activity, there other potential 
> sources.
> - Points might accrue for consistent activity, and gradually fall if you 
> stop participating.  (Note, points have no relation with access levels, 
> so people who participate without care for points to maintain only 
> specific packages don't need to care about maintaining consistent 
> activity.)
> 

Remember this stuff is for human interpretation. So basing just on 
bugzilla is fine; high points means "does a lot of bugzilla stuff." 
Having also "years as fedora contributor" or "number of packages owned" 
would also be easy to understand, but to me probably easier if they are 
separate metrics.

Any kind of complex formula and nobody knows what the number means.

But really, define the problem... for me bugzilla points are so people 
jumping into the community can tell who is just a drive-by commentator 
and who is a contributor. They seem to work fine for that.

I don't see why you'd want some single rank metric to measure someone's 
global Fedora coolness.

Havoc