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Re: New GitHub Profile Badges Beta

#101
post #96

One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'. We really shouldn't be encouraging this.

Where is this list of github achievements? The only place I see this mentioned is here

https://github.com/Schweinepriester/github-profile-achieveme...

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Re: New GitHub Profile Badges Beta

#103
post #92
post #34

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> If you didn't like these features, why are your projects on GitHub then Because it also works really well for solo projects or private projects. I chose GitHub many years ago not because they were social but because they were free and accessible. The competitors at the time were sourceforge and Google code and neither of them were as easy to use or simple. I use GitHub in spite of its dumb social features, not beca…

Moving to another Git host is much easier than moving out of the USA.

Yes, but the analogy stands. I can stick with an imperfect system and it’s not reasonable to leave over new features I don’t like.

Re: New GitHub Profile Badges Beta

#107
post #71

Some people are making $300000+ a year working on these features. Think about it for a minute.

What are your thoughs on it?

It seems like easy money compared to other Github projects. Actions looks like a garbage fire full of unsolved problems, for example.

But I'm not sure how good it is to work on such a project for a long time in terms of career growth. Telling your next potential employers your body of work at Github is a Badge CRUD sounds pretty underwhelming.

Re: New GitHub Profile Badges Beta

#108
post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your thoughs on it?

It seems like easy money compared to other Github projects. Actions looks like a garbage fire full of unsolved problems, for example. But I'm not sure how good it is to work on such a project for a long time in terms of career growth. Telling your next potential employers your body of work at Github is a Badge CRUD sounds pretty underwhelming.

If it's underwhelming, phrase it differently - like working on "GitHub's new reward system".

Re: New GitHub Profile Badges Beta

#109
The behavior you reward is the behavior you get.

What is the value of encouraging low quality contributions?

Very soon, you will be able to buy GitHub profiles with a lot of badges and followers I guess.

Re: New GitHub Profile Badges Beta

#110
The "Pull Shark" one is my least favorite, I don't like when developers use their PR count as some kind of achievement, it's probably the most toxic metric (lol) but seriously, it's toxic. People do all kinds of evil, sabotogy things to preserve their contribution and PR count, and too many CTOs have admitted to me that's all they look at. Now you know why some kids are pushing 25 [pointless] PRs per day haha. It was never about code quality or productivity!

What Code Climate is doing- I would love to see GitHub badges around that. Give me a badge because I pair unit tests with React components, or because I wrote something in an elegant way. That would actually be cool/useful. It would require that GitHub hires good devs though haha! Good devs at a major tech company - that will NEVER happen.

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