Make buildbot high-scores board

[dustin]

The idea is to have a web application which aggregates various buildbot activity into one place and assigns a total score to each contributor. It should be a fun way to motivate contributors and help them to compare their level of effort with others.

This would not be a part of the Buildbot application, but a separate service written and maintained by the Buildbot developers.

refs:

• ​http://twistedmatrix.com/highscores/
• ​https://github.com/leereilly/github-high-scores

Related:

• #2932

[dustin]

:ewong, I haven't heard from you about this in a loooong time? What's up?

[ewong]

Sorry. Been busy with RL and other personal issues. Will try to get reacquainted with the code.

[dustin]

I still think this is a great idea. I'd like to maybe shift the emphasis a little bit, though.

Rather than trying to represent individual contributions by each person, or gamify things by assigning "scores" to people, there's a HUGE value just in representing "who's who in Buildbot". That info can be drawn from a variety of sources:

• MAINTAINERS.txt
• Current Buildbot org members on Github (​https://api.github.com/orgs/buildbot/members)
• Current Botherders (​https://github.com/buildbot/botherders)
• Named leadership roles ("Release Manager", "Documentation Lead", etc.)
• Commit authors in the last six (or whatever) months
• Pull request authors / commenters
• IRC channel participants
• Mailing-list posters
• Ticket authors / commenters
• StackOverflow questions and answers tagged 'buildbot'
• ...

I think we could add gamification *after* we have this other data, but I'd really like somewhere to point to that just lists everyone involved in the project, to show the activity level.

[sa2ajj]

Any updates about this ticket?