Thread: N900 device program for maemo.org developers and contributors
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Nathan is offline Nathan
2009-10-16 , 17:56
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#125
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
Maybe you're ignoring the fact that karma isn't comprised solely of your involvement in talk.maemo.org. Even just responding to bugs in Bugzilla for your project generates you karma.
Only helps if you have bugs in your product. ;-)

But yes, as I stated over 80% comes from talk. The only way I could get that number was to look at my numbers. ;-)


I think that before you guys go on a witchhunt, you should have all the details first.
Not trying to start a which hunt, just making sure the issue is addressed. Just trying to make sure we don't drive off any developers because of hurt feelings. I would be pretty annoyed had I had a top 30 app and I wasn't invited because I didn't post much on the forums.... That might be enough to drive me to Android or Palm. We can't afford to loose users.

Quim has stated time and time again that he's here to make sure "everybody wins".
Yes, but he hasn't posted anything contrary to karma on this and based on what I perceived him saying in the other dev-device thread (which you are referring too) he said karma wasn't a major factor; except in all reality this device program so far the only factor he has outlined is Karma.

200 karma is an extremely LOW bar to set for these discounts. Hell, look at Joshua. Dude's been here all of two or three months and already has more than half the amount of karma needed to get a discount.
Makes my point exactly. Posting has too much affect on karma. It weights the table towards people who frequent and POST a lot in the forums. (Yes I know their is a brainstorm in progress to try and fix it for the future -- but that doesn't take care of the present)


If a developer of a popular application hasn't gotten enough karma then maybe he should try being a part of the community... coming here and posting about new releases, answering questions and so on. It's not like he/she even has to do it all that often. Remember, look at the title of this thread. These discounts are rewarding community engagement, not just developers.
I disagree. As my example with Anderson -- I see him occasionally on the newsgroups, bug tracker and pymaemo mailing list. He only has 195 karma. But based on Karma he would have been excluded. Now that is a problem!

Regardless, no matter what system we have, someone's going to feel like they fell through the cracks. I wish it didn't have to happen at all.
Oh, I understand your point. But each iteration we can get better; and I just wanted to make sure that we take in account the people who fell in the cracks. We do NOT want to drive _any_ of them away.

Nathan
Last edited by Nathan; 2009-10-16 at 18:00. Reason: Updated karma issue.