Thinking about missions

Here is Asheesh's early thoughts about missions.

Quests / missions

• Attend a LUG or other programming/open source event
  • post the link?
    • is cheating likely? not really, I think.
  • tell us the location?

• Compile a program from source

• file a bug and have it marked as solved

• Learn how to use IRC

Projects

• need more people
  • who have compiled the project
  • who do specific things, as named by the project
  • who have run the test suite
  • who say something nice to them
  • who write source code documentation
    • Mission idea: Find an uncommented function, and write a block comment for it
  • who write human (user)-oriented documentation
    • Mission idea: Find a typo, and file a bug

Levels / XP (experience points)

• Training badge for each skill
• Levels of badges: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond
• Diamond for
  • importing commits to any project (big or small)
  • someone with a diamond on a project can give you one

A sample mission

Goal

• Find a program or library
• Download its source code, and
• Run its test suite.

To earn the points

• Leave a note here (on the mission) saying which project you've tested, and paste the full output into the box.
• You can alwa...

People who have completed this mission

• (picture) Asheesh Laroia (paulproteus)
  • (Banshee logo) Banshee
  • 129 Tests OK (last line of output)