Open Stack

+1 from me

I think one thing that would help for bug fixes is to have labels for them to
help developers quickly identify where they can help. I heard there are lots of
bugs that are easy to fix for new developers. I tried finding them because I
want to help, but I found it difficult for me to identify bugs. It would be
nice to have an easy way to find bugs that a newcomer can fix.

What are the expectations for code reviews as well? It's a little intimidating
for a newbie to do a code review. I can review for easy things like spacing,
comments, etc., but I don't know if I should give a +1 because I don't
always have the big architecture picture. It's even more intimidating to give a
-1. I'm not sure what constitutes a -1. I don't want to seem like I'm
nitpicking.

-Nate

> 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