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Developers Like Winning

Gamify your code reviews

@

We All Know

Code Reviews Are

Super Important

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

- Linus Torvalds

But We All Know

People Hate Them

photo credit:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/68291860@N00/81590207/

Needed:

Stronger Motivation

We’d Do Stuff for Points

Even If They Mean

Nothing

photo credit: http://blog.steren.fr/tag/game/

Luis Von Ahn’s ESP Game

http://www.asktheadmin.com/2009/02/im-addicted-to-googles-image-labeler-game-help-me.html

http://www.misapisportuscookies.com/2011/12/conducir-se-vuelve-una-experiencia-social-con-waze/

http://bazaarcompass.hubpages.com/hub/waze-app-review

Let’s Give Points For

Code Reviews!

We Use GitHub Pull Requests

We Use GitHub Pull Requests

And Now - We Count

Comments!

● ~170% more comments

● ~200% more reviewers

Impact - A Month Later

● ~80 Reviewers

● ~2300 (Human) Comments

In A Typical Month

Bonus #1: Abuse!

Bonus #2: Trash Talk!

You Can Too!

https://github.com/tzachz/

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Thanks!