Proposed change to Developers/Developer page on our wiki

[Chris Sherlock]

> On 16 Jan 2016, at 1:49 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:00:44PM +0100, jan iversen wrote:
>> The upside is, that is makes it easier to see what karma people have, the
>> downside is that it creates a sort of grouping, which is kind of unwanted.
> 
> Right, thats a big negative.
> 
>> Please let me hear what you think ?
> 
> I dont think it to be an improvement a/ for the reasons you named and b/
> because I dont imagine that list to be used much at all beyond for the license
> statement and rarely maybe a IRC nick to git name mapping.
> 
> So, Id suggest to keep that (huge) table as is.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bjoern
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In a real sense, karma is a negative. On a discussion forum like Hacker News it can be helpful, but even there they discourage it. It certainly encourages gamesmanship, and that’s very bad for a merit based project. 

I used to be very involved in Wikipedia (I invented [citation needed] and their admin’s noticeboard) and so I am speaking from experience. 

It’s nice to know the number of commits that have been made, but an artificial grouping is not only unimportant, but can causing serious friction between contributors. 

Chris