[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1313: Profiles: Badges for BuddyPress contributors and team members

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#1313: Profiles: Badges for BuddyPress contributors and team members
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 Reporter:  netweb       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  Profiles     |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-feedback  |
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:14 ocean90]:
 > I'm curious why BuddyPress should get a badge and other plugins not?
 What are the rules here? Can other plugin/theme authors request a badge
 too?

 Since bbPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress are sister projects of WordPress,
 and part of the same umbrella group I see no reason why they wouldn't be
 treated specially here.
 Where I draw the line in the sand would be "Does it use WordPress.org
 infrastructure, and share user tables?"

 I also see the other side of the coin though, currently the profile system
 is for ''WordPress community contributions''; Core, Docs, Translation,
 Support, WordCamps, etc, it's not immediately expected to see BuddyPress
 or bbPress core contributions on there (I mean, even WordCamps seems a
 little odd in that context).
 For example, do we add BuddyPress Docs badges too? or do they get the
 current documentation badge?

 I also see benefit of adding "I contributed to plugin x" functionality to
 WordPress.org profiles in some way, but I don't think I'd encourage that
 for the current badge system, if only because it wasn't designed to scale
 that way.

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