Re: Commitfest problems

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists(at)toco-domains(dot)de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Commitfest problems
Date: 2014-12-18 19:24:18
Message-ID: 549329E2.7010909@commandprompt.com
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On 12/18/2014 11:03 AM, Gavin Flower wrote:

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> Hey Joshua, what does a 'Normal" person look like??? :-)

Hahhhahahah, you have to get out of your basement to see them. Usually,
they are at the latest and newest coffee hub, talking about hating
hipsters while wearing skinny jeans and a new but used looking plaid shirt.

> I think a separate list of contributors would be good. How about some
> 'Browne points' mechanism which would give a rough measure of the value
> of the contribution. My contribution would probably rate '1', whereas
> Tom's would be at least '100,000,000' - more realistically: my
> contribution would not rate at all, but Tom's would still be the largest
> by far! Perhaps a log scale so Tom would not show us up so much, and
> the contributions of new people would look more significant? Probably
> any such scheme would be too difficult to administer in practice, or
> taken far too seriously, though it might be fun.

I don't think it would be difficult to come up with a basic system that
gives weight to length of contribution as well as quantity and quality.
But I don't think your specific applies. Tom is core, that in itself is
the platinum badge of honor from an outsiders perspective.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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