On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
Shrek ears?? Why people have to be humiliated? Why don't just:
- temporary reduce the salary
- permanently reduce the salary
- fire
? Dmitriy
That approach but it has serious drawbacks:
Such as the fact that a good number of our developers are volunteers and we can't fire them ;-)
Overall though, I kind of like the idea of a "village stocks" style of recognition when you break the site. Back on CodeReview, it was impossible to convince people to resolve their fixmes--endless mailing list and personal nagging did not work. However, once I put the "list of fixmes by author" report in (aka: The wall of shame), people got much much better at taking care of them. I think ways of highlighting the mistake but showing where you can fix it is what's most useful here. Nobody wants to be at the top of the wall of shame, so they fix their code and learn as a result. Something similar here would be useful.
-Chad