[openstack-dev] Gamification and on-boarding ...

wu jiang wingwj at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 06:44:34 UTC 2014


+1. This looks very interesting.  :)


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/12/2014 11:35 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:
> > On 2014-02-12 12:00, Sandy Walsh wrote:
> >> At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of
> >> helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code
> >> reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before
> >> screaming in a chat room "can someone look at my branch". We want this
> >> experience to be positive, but not everyone has time to hand-hold new
> >> people in the dance.
> >>
> >> The informal OpenStack motto is "automate everything", so perhaps we
> >> should consider some form of gamification [1] to help us? Can we offer
> >> badges, quests and challenges to new users to lead them on the way to
> >> being strong contributors?
> >>
> >> "Fixed your first bug" badge
> >> "Updated the docs" badge
> >> "Got your blueprint approved" badge
> >> "Triaged a bug" badge
> >> "Reviewed a branch" badge
> >> "Contributed to 3 OpenStack projects" badge
> >> "Fixed a Cells bug" badge
> >> "Constructive in IRC" badge
> >> "Freed the gate" badge
> >> "Reverted branch from a core" badge
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> These can be strung together as Quests to lead people along the path.
> >> It's more than karma and less sterile than stackalytics. The
> >> Foundation could even promote the rising stars and highlight the
> >> leader board.
> >>
> >> There are gamification-as-a-service offerings out there [2] as well as
> >> Fedora Badges [3] (python and open source) that we may want to
> >> consider.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >> -Sandy
> >>
> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification
> >> [2] http://gamify.com/ (and many others)
> >> [3] https://badges.fedoraproject.org/
> >
> > +1 from me, if this can be done without a huge amount of ongoing
> > maintenance for someone.  I will admit that climbing the reviewstats
> > "leaderboard" is good motivation for those days when I just don't feel
> > like reviewing.  Ditto for Launchpad karma. :-)
>
> I really like the badges idea.  It sounds like a really fun way to
> encourage folks.  It's a refreshing alternative to just looking at raw
> numbers all the time.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
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