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Discussion on: Is it good or bad practice to make developers pay money for his bugs?

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Camilo Martinez

It was mentioned by tech leader because QA report same mistake over and ever again (on differents screens).

They talked, the whole team and agre this "taxes":

  • 1000 COP (0.33 U$) commit or pull request that can't be compiled (by Jenkins)
  • 1000 COP (0.33 U$) Missing field validation
  • 500 COP (0.15 U$) Spelling mistakes.
  • 2000 COP (0.65 U$) Tech leader mistakes

Money collected wold be used for buy beer on December.

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Philip • Edited

As the tech leader fee is double the price, it might be worth looking at, as the money goes into beer for the team in the end. An even softer approach would be to just give points and the person with the high score has to bake a cake in the end.

As long as this is done in a fun way with a little wink and not to but blame individual persons, it could work. As soon as it becomes a real punishment or could cost a developer a relevant part of the salary, it will get very serious and can cause more trouble than it actually solves (in my opinion).