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Bugzilla points

Thursday, August 10, 2006 ★ 23:02 ★ Category Gnome

Recently there has been some discussion about the bugzilla points you can get in Gnome Bugzilla. The points statistic explanation page has recently been rewritten by Elijah Newren after some discussion in bug 347830. I fully agree with the comment made by Olav Vitters: it’s all about the positive side of being a Gnome contributor. Until now, there has not been any “competition” caused by the points system, so in my opinion that’s no argument at all. I love the points (I got 18 points right now, yay for me) and I don’t use the number to judge other people. For me it’s just a non-intrusive way to recognize frequent contributors.

Oh, and while I’m on the topic: please add the number of patches an individual submitted to Bugzilla to the formula. I know those numbers can be queried, since the “Weekly Bug Summary page does it too. I’m not sure which factor of the total number they should account for, though… maybe the same weight as the points you get for closing bugs?

In other news… hello Planet Gnome. For the curious: I am Wouter Bolsterlee:

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