[wp-hackers] GSoC 2010, WordPress.org Profiles

[Justin Shreve]

Yes I guess grouped is the wrong word. Then it sounds like I'm
an official developer when I'm not. Tagged as "codex writer", whatever makes
more sense.

True - I don't like having to write documentation all that much either but I
just worry about having significantly different rankings for things. That's
a minor detail though. People like karma points so it's a necessary feature!

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Stas Sușcov <stas at nerd.ro> wrote:

> În data de Sb, 20-03-2010 la 19:27 -0400, Justin Shreve a scris:
> > It would be great to see something like this.
> >
> > Feature idea: It would be nice if users could be grouped. For example if
> I
> > submit patches, create plugins or something I would be in a certain
> group.
> > If you help out on the support forums and update some Codex articles you
> are
> > in another group. This could lead to some cool sorting. Example:
> > http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/ is just a listing right now, if we
> were
> > grouped you could separate by "developers", or "supporters" or something.
> >
>
> Niceee. I would go far and use the word tagged instead of grouped. :)
>
> > Check out http://directory.freelanceswitch.com/ too - you could allow
> people
> > to have some similar functionality like that in the profiles system.
> >
> > One thing I worry about is sometimes considering one type of contributing
> a
> > higher importance over another. It could send for example the message
> that
> > patches are more important then working in the support forums and writing
> > documentation.
>
> Oh, usually writing documentation is the most boring activity and not
> too many developers are attracted to it. This is the only reason I
> bumped the score.
>
>
>
> >
> > - Justin
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Stas Sușcov <stas at nerd.ro> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi hackers,
> > > I can see GSoC in WordPress Camp is on hype :)
> > >
> > > This summer I have not much to do, so I said to dedicate my free time
> > > contributing to WordPress project, which fan I'm since some time.
> > >
> > > I've read the ideas page and come to the conclusion that improving
> > > profiles.wordpress.org would be a great contribution not only to the
> > > project itself, but to the whole community. Plus, I like hacking all
> > > kind of stuff, and this idea offers almost the full pack of stuff you
> > > can play with, from php and python code (trac) to fetching svn commits
> > > and evaluating all kind/type of data.
> > >
> > > >From what I understand there would be cool to get some kind of
> > > rating integrated into the system like we can see on social networks
> for
> > > hackers like ohloh. Rating to depend on contribution (of all kind, from
> > > forum activities to commits on svn repo, be there plugins or core
> > > projects). A way I would go doing that is dividing the system into
> > > different parts:
> > > * backend, the fetchers and spiders, evaluation scripts that update the
> > > db, trigger scripts that may call the update process
> > > * frontend, where all the magic is shown and can be manipulated (I
> think
> > > a good idea would be to allow users doing stuff like on facebook `like
> > > or not`). Also the frontend part must offer simplest UI as to the
> > > visitor, same to the user where he can specify his details like codex
> > > username or what's already on profiles.wordpress.org.
> > >
> > > Also, talking about backend, I believe implementing some kind of
> > > algorithm that will grow rank/karma depending on activities kind.
> > > Like give a 5 to the user if he contributed to codex documentation, and
> > > 4 if he committed something into svn. Or 7 if he fixed a bug.
> > >
> > > Pretty much, I would like to steal as much as I can from the
> > > Launchpad.net project. They got some pretty interesting karma system,
> > > which I believe is a good starting point.
> > >
> > > So, feel free to blame me if I'm thinking wrong or help me get my
> > > thoughts better. Hope I got somebody interested who can support my
> > > proposal. :)
> > >
> > > Have a nice weekend.
> > >
> > > P.S.: Here's my profile: http://profiles.wordpress.org/c00l2sv/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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