On 25.07.2004 17:58:38 -0400, Bill Clark wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:09:54 -0700 (PDT), Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I would like that all developers (others may participate as well of course) help setting up a list to define how development tasks completed could be rewarded.
People tend to be competitive. Turn it into a game.
Those making requests should be given a certain number of "points" per day that they're allowed to assign to their requests (or to already existing requests). When a developer completes a task, they're awarded all the points for that task.
Then you need a scoreboard that shows which developers are "winning".
I think this will lead to worse software, because it shifts the focus from "writing good software" to "making money/win the game". There have been several studies in the past on this topic:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
Frithjof