#517: "Brevity is Beautiful" - Badge for shortest lifespan of package/app in Fedora -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: duffy | Status: new Type: | Keywords: New badge idea | Has a description: 0 Priority: | Artwork status: None minor | External requirements: Has a name: | Triaged (triagers only): 0 0 | Concept approved (reviewers only): | 0 | Badge definition status: | None | Manually awarded: | 0 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Badge description (like "You added a co-maintainer to a package. BFF!"):
Your package had the shortest shelf life of all Fedora packages.
Help the badges team understand what this idea is all about. If this badge is awarded for certain kinds of activities: 1) What are those activities?
Packaging an application and then retiring it shortly afterward. For someone to do such an action means they are willing to put aside work they had done for the greater good of Fedora, as well as that they are open to considering others' opinions and taking them seriously.
2) Who is doing them (are they packagers? translators? newcomers? veterans? users? sponsors?)
A packager
3) Why are they doing them (is this a means to a different end?)
They packaged a tool, and then learned that maybe it wasn't the best idea for Fedora and decided to pull it after an open and frank discussion. This makes Fedora better.
4) When do they do them (every day? once a year?)
This is more like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing, although if anybody retires another package more quickly they may earn it as well.
5) How do they do them (by talking in IRC? by running commands in the console? by using a web interface?)
I think there's packaging infrastructure that handles this but I'm not sure.
Lastly, do you have any ideas for artwork concepts?
A supermarket shelf showing gallons of milk lined up. It's a positive badge so no stink lines. Foods that have a short shelf life have short shelf lives because they need to be consumed fresh!