[darcs-users] darcs patch: make list_authors stats show ranking, to... (and 1 more)

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Sep 4 23:10:51 UTC 2008


I don't see either of these as particularly valuable.  The latter adds
two more make targets, which definitely seems like a bad thing (we've
got enough as it is).  The former just doesn't seem like it would be
very useful in motivating people.

David

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:
> Motivation: encourage use and visibility of the author statistics. Ranking
> adds a little fun to contributing; nobody's going to take it too far, like
> submitting a huge number of cleanup patches (ahem) and even if they did,
> the project wins! Also helps make sure there's a useful make target for
> all our usual tasks.
>
> Wed Aug  6 23:07:10 PDT 2008  Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com>
>  * make list_authors stats show ranking, to stimulate those patching juices
>
> Thu Sep  4 15:38:14 PDT 2008  Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com>
>  * easy "authors" and "authorstats" make targets
>


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