On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 07:32:37PM +0100, Leigh Griffin wrote:
FAS aside as that's mandatory let's look at what we have and
what we can
move to. The current Fedora messaging integration relates really heavily to
"capture all the things" and then award Badges. I'm wondering how valuable
and incentive driven that is given many Badges are passively earned. With a
new system its a new chance to reimagine what a Badge should be awarded
for. That might give flexibility and not a hard coupling at a system level
to Fedora Messaging. Could the levels be inferred from another app and
awarded even manually once a time period for example
Well, I do not want to move from automated processes to something where a
human needs to take a long time checking lists and pushing buttons. That's a
recipe for the whole thing to just stop working. In fact, if anything, I'd
like to see us automate as many badges that are now manual as possible.
Plus, instant gratification is important -- waiting for someone to do it
once a quarter will absolutely not be as effective as letting someone earn
their badges in the middle of the night when they feel inspired.
But anyway, I'm pretty sure that there are things which we _do_ want from
both Fedora Accounts and the message bus. This amount of observability into
actions people take is really powerful and one of the reasons we can do cool
things in the first place.
So once that's needed, I don't think there's really much difference between
needing 10 and needing 10,000 -- both are more than 1.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader