Getting PRs fixed (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 01/18/2012 06:57 PM, Dieter BSD wrote:
> Andriy writes:
>> And dealing with PRs is not always exciting.
>
> Neither is brushing your teeth or cleaning the kitchen, but most of us
> manage to do them at least occasionally. Part of being a grown up.
>
> Instead of looking for a stick to hold over developers to get them
> to fix PRs, let's look for carrots to make fixing PRs more appealing.
>
> Idea 1: Fix 'n' PRs, get a tee-shirt, fridge magnet, plush daemon, ...
>
> Idea 2: Give it status. Set up a web page with PR fixing stats
>
> name/handle..total PRs fixed...fixed in last 12 months...average fixed/year
> Sheldon......150...............90........................72
> Leonard......131..............110........................67
> Howard.......104...............20........................52
> Raj...........80...............80........................80

You should get extra points for difficult PR's.  One way to measure this 
would be to give more points for fixing older PR's than newer PR's.