Karma is not awarded to project maintainers

[Julian Edwards]

See https://launchpad.net/txlongpollfixture
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Top contributors
Gavin Panella 70 points
Brad Crittenden 46 points
Julian Edwards 39 points
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I have set up that project, done a lot of code with many revisions, and landed it all via a merge proposal. Yet Gavin and Brad have more karma than me because they commented on the merge proposal. That doesn't reflect reality.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

This is a duplicate. Welcome to the project maintainer club. Most maintainer actions are in the registry domain and the registry does not give karma

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I don't think this is a dupe Curtis. If you take project maintenance out of the equation, I should still have more karma since I've done the vast majority of the work. Either there's not enough karma for code revisions or too much for reviewing. What do you think?

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

This is a very touchy subject that might need the views of a new product strategist. jml was against karma. He torpedoed my proposal to normalise karma and add it to registry. He wanted work on a replacement system rather than tuning karma which assign arbitrary value for actions.

In the rules I proposed, commits and reviews have the same value because they benefit the project. I proposed 4 categories for actions based on who benefits: self, community, many communities, users. Self was given no karma points, but they appear in my proposed activity log for a project to indicate project vitality.

See https://dev.launchpad.net/Registry/RegistryKarma