Karma - How is it calculated?

[Carthik Sharma]

Stuart++,

On 3/29/06, Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com> wrote:
> Carthik Sharma wrote:
>
> > I just got started using Launchpad to report and triage Ubuntu and
> > Launchpad bugs.
> >
> > I would love to learn if the process of calculating Karma is
> > documented anywhere. I have looked in some Spec files and the wiki and
> > found nothing, except some proposals for improvement (including a
> > thread in the archives of this mailing list).
>
> When working with Launchpad, certain actions such as commenting on a bug or
> translating a string cause a record to be stored in our database of the
> action type and the time it occurred. Each action type has a numerical score
> associated with it. Each action type is associated with a category (bugs,
> translations, specifications at the moment - 'support' category coming soon
> I hope)....
> </snip>
Thank you very much!! This reads great, and answers all the questions I had.

> > ...Also, Using launchpad will be a lot easier for new users like me if
> > there was a documentation wiki or someo ther kind of documentation
> > that explains how things work, and the right way (With screenshots, or
> > a list of actions required) to complete tasks, such as confirming a
> > bug, forwarding a bug upstream etc. Maybe the right question at this
> > point is, what User documentation exists, if any? :)
>
> (I'll leave it up to people dealing with the UI to comment on this)

This is not a crib, more like a "wish". I know, Launchpad's not being
open source as yet would limit people's interest in developing
documentation for it, so wasn't expecting much.

Carthik.