OhLoh driven tipping

[ncoghlan]

Back in #216 Chris McDonough (I believe) mentioned the idea of some kind of Ohloh integration as a possibility for making gittip work better for people that focus on doing things, rather than publicising what they did.

At the time I was fairly negative on the idea (since OhLoh measures a commit-focused metric that ignores other ways of contributing to a project), but it occurred to me that it could still be a useful way for people to support members of an open source project without necessarily knowing who the people involved in that project are, and also to automatically adjust your tipping as the specific identities of those people change.

What I'm envisioning is something where you can say on Gittip that you want to support Python by tipping the top N contributors to Python (based on the 12 month OhLoh stats) for $X per contributor per week.

[chadwhitacre]

@ncoghlan Do you think this is a good place for a third-party tool using the new-ish tips.json API? That let's you update your tips in arbitrary ways.

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com#api

Would make a great blog post. :-)

[chadwhitacre]

Closing. This should be a third-party tool.