That's funny... but the rules are not good, it should rather be : 0 points for doing a build with no failure (instead of +1, so that there is no incentive to commit more) +1 point for stabilizing a failing build (instead of ?) Jerome Pascal Voitot wrote:

Good idea but what is the reward (beside the satisfaction being a skilled coder) ? In fact, this is the main question :)

Pascal On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi devs,

Just found this plugin which sounds pretty promising:

http://hudson.gotdns.com/wiki/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game...

I think our build is failing a bit too frequently and we're not always paying enough attention to checkstyle rules(me included) and the like so maybe this game idea could help us in this direction.

WDYT?

Thanks -Vincent http://xwiki.com http://xwiki.org http://massol.net

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote:

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That's funny... but the rules are not good, it should rather be : 0 points for doing a build with no failure (instead of +1, so that there is no incentive to commit more)

Actually there must be an incentive to commit more. People who don't commit often keep their code on their machine which means their code doesn't get integrated with the rest thus leading to integration issues later on and delays. The more commits the better. And since when you commit you must be careful not to break the rule or you'll get -10 that is balanced IMO :)

I'd suggest to keep the default values to start with and adjust later if we find some bias.

+1, if it makes people cut commits in small non breaking parts to get more point it's great ;)

-Vincent

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+1 point for stabilizing a failing build (instead of ?)

Jerome

Pascal Voitot wrote:

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Good idea but what is the reward (beside the satisfaction being a skilled coder) ? In fact, this is the main question :)

Pascal On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi devs,

Just found this plugin which sounds pretty promising:

http://hudson.gotdns.com/wiki/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game...

I think our build is failing a bit too frequently and we're not always paying enough attention to checkstyle rules(me included) and the like so maybe this game idea could help us in this direction.

WDYT?

Thanks -Vincent http://xwiki.com http://xwiki.org http://massol.net

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The rules can be modified to our requirements, but the idea is great.

P.S.: Every release or so we should reset the scores to give others a fighting chance :P

Or we can start with 100 points for each comitter, just to make sure nobody gets minus marks :P +1 - Asiri