DoctorMo's Blog

There is a misconception that your karma value in launchpad is somehow meaningful within the community, that the more karma that you have, the greater your trust or the better your chances in getting access to things or acquiring membership.

This simply isn’t true. The first problem is that karma in launchpad is a measure of activity on launchpad. So much of what the community does is not on launchpad and things which are not related to the Ubuntu community are counted. It’s not even a good measure of engineering talent as the more commits or translations you do the better your score.

When your looking to get membership or your looking to be trusted, people are much more aware of your recommendations as far as working with you and your significant sustained contributions. The membership board will look at your written wiki page and dig through various sources of information such as photos in your galleries, blog posts, team reports and how other people in the team know your work.

I never check Karma on launchpad, for me team membership and working with someone is much more important.

Hey Ubuntu Land, some of you guys who are not developers but would still like to be able to edit various none coding parts of projects might be interested in this.

I’m developing it for the Ubuntu Learning project, since we’re going to need normal folks to be able to get involved, and the best way to do that is to increase the usability of the tools we use. My main focus here is not on replicating the functionality of bzr or launchpad at any fundamental level, it’s about producing functionality which follows a prescribed workflow. those who need a different workflow will obviously use the command line tools, but for all other people, this kind of integration will be used (hell it was even useful to me).

So watch the video and tell me what you think.

[blip.tv ?posts_id=2638378&dest=-1]

Code can be found on launchpad here.