Could badges be used for policies? For example, Blessed Committers could be replaced with a badge potentially. This would (at least partially) solve T5602.

They could, yeah. We'd probably need a "List all users with badge X" UI to avoid losing functionality, but that seems pretty reasonable.

When I first read the title of this ticket, I thought that you were going to add gamification.

Why not both? badges awarded manually for annotating special users + badges given automagically for gamification. Second part would propably depend on being able to write herald rules like "If commiter has 100 accepted revisions, award 'No Longer a Peasant' badge" ;-)

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(posted just as memorabilia; no need to implement this) :)

• I assume this would also supersede how disabled user accounts are currently displayed ("handle-disabled" CSS adding a black bullet in front of user name). Not mentioned in the task summary; just pointing out for completeness.
• I assume this would also be the way to go to indicate new Phabricator users (e.g. dateCreated within last 60 days) to be treated even friendlier / with more patience? Mozilla's Bugzilla has such a visual indicator. See their background discussions why this could be useful in communities, but could also discriminate new users.

I wouldn't plan for this to supersede the grey "disabled" dot or the red "away" dot in the general case (those show up in a lot of contexts where badges won't) but it would be reasonable to consider showing a special automatic "Disabled" or "Away" badge in timelines, like the proposed "Admin" badge.

I suspect the "automatic badge" stuff will be modular enough that it will be easy to add simple badges ("Disabled", "Away", "New for X Days") locally, even if we don't ultimately pursue them in the upstream.

My v0 or v-1 pass at this would be pretty basic (and I think like 98.5% aligned with @epriestley)

Badges would be granted by Project Membership or being an Admin. These would appear on your profile (I'm close to having PHUIBadge out for review). As part of editing your Profile, a user can choose to identify themselves with a Badge (if they have multiple badges, they can pick only one). In picking one Badge to identify with, we keep the feel of the product and it's use Authentic. So if I am an Administrator and part of Phacility High Command, I would choose one of these to be my primary identify around Phabricator. This should logically work well in most use cases. If you're a "Bug Team" member, "Design", or "Security", these associations would appear in Timeline and Hovercards adding to you're authenticity during the discussion. This would be a similar design direction to the "Author" tag we use on inline comment in Differential.

If we go this route, we should probably consider "Can be used as Badge" in Projects. Or at least, in this install, seeing someone with (Spaces) by their name might seem weird.

Show on Timeline: Inside buildTransactionTimeline(), load all the badges that each user has, then have the timeline render them next to their profile image.

This direction I think is my only concern, as it sounds like a lot of clutter without much real benefit. At least, I'd like to attempt a more dialed back approach for the first cut and see what's needed after that.

I don't want to do project/badge stuff yet, just an explicit "award this badge to this user" thing for now, but imagine maybe doing that in a future version.

I'd also like us to try to fit, like, 3-5 ish badges into timeline if possible? maybe? We definitely don't need 100 but it would be nice to be able to see more than one, I think. e.g., my first badge has to be either "Admin" or "Phacility", and then my budget is exhausted and I can't have anything fun/unique if it's limited to 1.

I'm fine slathering hovercards with tons of them, but am worried that more than 1 or 2 would make timeline cluttered. Though maybe you have a magical design for this I'm not able to envision.

I was imagining something like this:

+-------------+
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+-(A) (*) (~)-+

...where the box is the profile picture, and (A), (*) and (~) are badges (white icon on colored circular field?) and we show details on hover. 5 might be hard to fit but seems like 3 is probably reasonable? They have to be pretty small but I don't think they need to be very big.

Oh, yeah. That huge treatment might be good for "Administrator", "Employee" or object relationships ("Task Owner", "Task Author"), but feels pretty big for the more achivement-like "Made 100 Commits", "Registered for 5 years", "Contributed", things.

I'd totally brag about my 1,000 commits. :)

We could let specific "Important" badges generate a text tag like that but I'd like to be able to, e.g., award everyone who reports a bug a badge for it without turning every timeline into "Reported a Bug" on each comment.

I'm fine trying both and seeing what shakes out in the long run (which may be both).

http://www.wowhead.com/guides/vanity-collections/the-entitled-a-guide-to-titles was a lot of my inspiration, haha.

I think at best we can fit 2 under there right now. 2 icons + 1 title...

pink maybe isn't a good choice. i'll tinker

I always thought it would be cool to reward stuff like:

submitted 10 diffs in a row w/out bypassing `arc lint`
added x new unit tests
landed x changes that didn't need revisions

It would be neat to gamify best coding practices instead of just arbitrary stuff on the site like "1000 comments" or whatever.

And since *everything* is in scope for phabricator...

You mean this: https://secure.phabricator.com/uiexample/view/PHUIBadgeExample/

In T6526#125777, @chad wrote:

You mean this: https://secure.phabricator.com/uiexample/view/PHUIBadgeExample/

So sexy!

Now I just have to figure out how to merge my two phabricator.com accounts together so that I get credit for my 2 commits (: Too bad I seem to have lost the password for the other one, and no longer work at that company so can't send myself a "reset password" link. Oh well, might just have to start submitting more diffs.

I don't need this but I want it!

Hey @chad - badges look HUUUUUGE on what You propose... As for colour - sure pink is not perfect, but it would be even better to colour-code badges. For example:

- 10 Tasks done
- 1000 tasks done

- 10 successive difs with proper arc lint
- 100 diffs

- member of project with colour red

as seen here, rather small icons/badres are quire readable, so why not use base font size instead of huge one? Sorry for potato quality:

+ it would be awesome to hover over some bagde like and receive something like

</> - 10 successive accepted difs without modiffication
</> - 10 successive diffs without lint problems
</> - 10 successive diffs without unit problems
</> - 50 unit test
</> - 100 diffs club
</> - 500 commits club

or something like that :)

I just realized the examples use the WoW rarity scheme ❤️

Also do I get to showcase my favorite badges on my profile? Maybe something like:

They don't let me program much, so it'll likely delete all your data.

A few pieces of feedback:

• It would be really nice to be able to split "being able to award this badge" and "being able to edit this badge". You've already said that this isn't something that you're likely to consider but I wanted to mention it here
• Another use case: in certain cases badges directly map to projects ("member of admin team" ~= "phacility high command" or "trusted contribute" ~= "trusted contributor" project)
• It would be nice to be able to "bind badges to external things": for example: we've already had requests for "submitted the most diffs" or "closed the most tasks"
• There is no way to go from a user's pokemon center to the list of other users with the badge. Clicking on it just flips it over.
• The mini-badges don't show up when posting inline comments only or when updating a diff: see this for example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zu97klycfzb7jtf/Screenshot%202015-07-25%2013.13.36.png?dl=0

In T6526#128262, @eadler wrote:

• Another use case: in certain cases badges directly map to projects ("member of admin team" ~= "phacility high command" or "trusted contribute" ~= "trusted contributor" project)

That would be our primary use-case, too.

Do it have notifications or hook for email or slack?

I'm struggling with how to think about the 'temporal' nature of some peer awards that might fit badges. For example, I'd like to give the team that won the popular vote at a hackathon, but it would not feel so special if after a year "everyone" had an Epic badge displayed all the time. I'm thinking more "you get celebrated for a month" and less "list of all the typos I found 3 year ago".

I think maybe something where a badge (or award?) could have a time limit attached after which it would still be in the trophy case, but no longer prominently displayed by each comment? Rescinding the badge feels too harsh.

I expect every user to have millions of participation badges. Yet they'll have to select just two to prominently display.

That's my expectation too -- the user cycles their "2012 Hackathon Winner" badge out for "2013 Easter Egg Finder" once they get bored of it, so badges are always fresh and lookin' fly.

We could maybe just add a [X] Do not show on timelines. option to the badge if this doesn't resolve itself down the road, after T9006 gives users power over which badges are shown.