maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - [Under consideration] Developers should get karma based on the relevance of their software

	bergie	2009-09-14 , 15:41
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Originally Posted by attila77

Commit count is a very unreliable stat (as people have different (D)VCS usage patterns), and quite often newcomers or non-regular contributors just send patches to core developers, who then apply them to trunk.

Ohloh does analyze more than just numbers of commits. They look at lines of code, comment % etc. The "Contributor Fact" API is quite interesting.

As for non-regular contributors not getting credited, that depends entirely on the culture and tools of the project. Git (that is anyway available on Garage) makes it quite easy to credit even people just sending simple patches.

I'm not saying this should be the only (or even the main) source of karma from applications, but it would be a nice addition to the formula.

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