Code review gamification
Here's a daft idea I had last night, on which I'd appreciate feedback:
Suppose your project struggles to get code reviews done in a timely or thorough fashion¹. It might be possible to improve matters by making code review into a game: you score points for every bug you find, for suggesting successful solutions, or for completing your code review quickly. More points for finding subtler bugs, submitting working patches or completing reviews extra-quickly. At the end of the month award prizes (or perhaps just bragging rights) to whoever's amassed the most Code Review Points.
Has anyone tried this? Has anyone got any good ideas for (semi-)automating the system? Does anyone think it's a terrible idea? If so, why?
¹ You are doing code reviews, right? :-)
Suppose your project struggles to get code reviews done in a timely or thorough fashion¹. It might be possible to improve matters by making code review into a game: you score points for every bug you find, for suggesting successful solutions, or for completing your code review quickly. More points for finding subtler bugs, submitting working patches or completing reviews extra-quickly. At the end of the month award prizes (or perhaps just bragging rights) to whoever's amassed the most Code Review Points.
Has anyone tried this? Has anyone got any good ideas for (semi-)automating the system? Does anyone think it's a terrible idea? If so, why?
¹ You are doing code reviews, right? :-)