From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 01:47:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B731065672 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:47:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C83DB8FC18 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11881 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jan 2012 00:57:37 -0000 Received: from 67.206.186.240 by rms-us005.v300.gmx.net with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:57:33 -0500 From: "Dieter BSD" Message-ID: <20120119005735.218280@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Authenticated: #74169980 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer x-registered: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: KA9lbyA03zOlNR3dAHAhws5+IGRvb4Dp Subject: Getting PRs fixed (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:47:30 -0000 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