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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:59:48 -0600
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting PRs fixed (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)
Message-ID:  <4F177914.5090706@missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20120119005735.218280@gmx.com>

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On 01/18/2012 06:57 PM, Dieter BSD wrote:
> Andriy writes:
>> And dealing with PRs is not always exciting.
>
> Neither is brushing your teeth or cleaning the kitchen, but most of us
> manage to do them at least occasionally. Part of being a grown up.
>
> Instead of looking for a stick to hold over developers to get them
> to fix PRs, let's look for carrots to make fixing PRs more appealing.
>
> Idea 1: Fix 'n' PRs, get a tee-shirt, fridge magnet, plush daemon, ...
>
> Idea 2: Give it status. Set up a web page with PR fixing stats
>
> name/handle..total PRs fixed...fixed in last 12 months...average fixed/year
> Sheldon......150...............90........................72
> Leonard......131..............110........................67
> Howard.......104...............20........................52
> Raj...........80...............80........................80

You should get extra points for difficult PR's.  One way to measure this 
would be to give more points for fixing older PR's than newer PR's.


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