Guide to setting karma thresholds?

[Kevin Kofler]

Luke Macken wrote:
> Yeah, we have yet to step back and really think about the defaults for
> the karma thresholds, after having the +3/-3 defaults for so long. Some
> maintainers set the values very low to decrease the amount of time their
> update spends in testing, and some set the values really high (or
> disable them) to ensure that their update doesn't change state without
> mantainer intervention. It's designed to fit both maintainer styles.

I think we should stop enabling autokarma by default, and instead let 
maintainers push stuff manually as soon as the karma is at +1, no matter 
what the autokarma is set to (or whether it's even enabled). (This doesn't 
give any more power to the maintainers than the current system, because the 
threshold is settable by the maintainer! All it'd do is remove the incentive 
to set a too low autokarma.)

(Now I actually think we should kill this whole "karma" concept entirely and 
let the maintainers decide, but that isn't going to be acceptable to FESCo, 
unfortunately. The proposal in the previous paragraph, on the other hand, 
should be consistent with FESCo's requirements.)

        Kevin Kofler