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I've found "importance scoring" to be a useful trick in improving my relationships with teammates and open-source contributors, while preserving my sanity. When
by otterley 5y ago
I've found "importance scoring" to be a useful trick in improving my relationships with teammates and open-source contributors, while preserving my sanity. When I give feedback, I add a score from 1-10 to my comments, where 1 is "trivial nit, take it or leave it," and 10 is "there is no way I will merge this because it's fundamentally broken or would otherwise be a huge mistake." It helps me balance my perfectionist nature against the need for forward progress, and contributors appreciate this guidance because it helps prioritize where further efforts are needed.
- LorenzA 5y agoI find this an interesting concept. How do you do this in practice add a number to every comment and explain your system somewhere?
- otterley 5y agoYes, that’s right. Just a (1/10) or (8/10) at the end of my note.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI just go with an important or not important for something I understand, I mean 6/10 I guess is important enough you don't want to merge it unless someone fixes it? And for something I don't understand I of course ask for clarification (by not understand I mean can you clarify why you did this bit?)
- otterley 5y agoIn practice, the histogram looks like a camel back :)