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This brings up an interesting problem to solve: How to tell if something is a "real" contributor rather than someone who sends the occasional spelling fix. I
by edgyswingset 11y ago
This brings up an interesting problem to solve:
How to tell if something is a "real" contributor rather than someone who sends the occasional spelling fix. I imagine recruiters would be interested in some way to easily tell this.
- TheDrizzle43 11y agoAll they have to do is ask them in the phone screen "So what did you contribute to Swift?"
- dvcrn 11y ago"I analysed the swift codebase for character sequence problems and actively contributed in reducing these. My contributions were responsible for eliminating hundreds of possible issue reports to the project."
- mikeash 11y agoIs it too much to ask that they actually look at the content of the pull requests?
- krig 11y agoHow is that a problem? If you really want to know the details, they are a single git query away.
- bechampion 11y agogood point , but it applied to every open source project too
- feelix 11y agoOne solution would be to implement upvotes/downvotes on github pull requests.
- gmac 11y agoMy suspicion is that someone who's smart, engaged and motivated enough to have figured out a way to be able to say they're a Swift contributor by fixing typos is probably in the top 10% of candidates anyway.
- issaria 11y agoA contribution for a typo is also a serious contribution