Rewards for simplifying/cleaning code

[0x4007]

I was working on this pull and thought it could be cool to have a small reward for simplifying the codebase.

Diff stats:

+5426
-6760

A simple formula could be to divide by 10 then subtract. i.e. 676 - 542.6 = $133.4

With our strict linter rules we should be able to avoid BS refactors.

Rationale

Generally codebase maintainers should try and keep the code clean and simple. This offers a direct financial incentive for everybody to do so. Our task oriented system is not very compatible with the continuous nature of code simplification and reduction, so this plugin addresses that.

Filters

We can use filename regex to make specific types of files eligible such as *.ts, *.sol

Remark

This is intended to be stacked on regular task related pulls as well (it doesn't need to be a dedicated refactor pull.)

[gentlementlegen]

Sounds a bit dangerous if we don't ignore some files, we might need some filters.

[ishowvel]

Does this really have to be a full on plugin, from what i see adding this onto the assignee payout logic would be way more simpler

[ubiquity-os-beta]

! Error: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/comments#create-an-issue-comment

[0x4007]

Does this really have to be a full on plugin, from what i see adding this onto the assignee payout logic would be way more simpler

It does seem simpler I agree but it's against our philosophy for plugins. They should all be separate plugins.

It will make more sense when we have our SDK functional and when we centralize payments to be aggregating "payment requests" from plugins.

@gentlementlegen @whilefoo what should we do to also render rewards from this one? It doesn't seem to make sense to include in conversation rewards but otherwise we have to build all the centralized payments infrastructure and requests.

[ishowvel]

Does this really have to be a full on plugin, from what i see adding this onto the assignee payout logic would be way more simpler

It does seem simpler I agree but it's against our philosophy for plugins. They should all be separate plugins.

It will make more sense when we have our SDK functional and when we centralize payments to be aggregating "payment requests" from plugins.

@gentlementlegen @whilefoo what should we do to also render rewards from this one? It doesn't seem to make sense to include in conversation rewards but otherwise we have to build all the centralized payments infrastructure and requests.

Until the centralized payment infrastructure gets built, I propose adding this logic on to the rewards plugin as it will incentivize and motivate contributors to solve more issues

[ubiquity-os-beta]

! Error: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/comments#create-an-issue-comment

[whilefoo]

@gentlementlegen @whilefoo what should we do to also render rewards from this one? It doesn't seem to make sense to include in conversation rewards but otherwise we have to build all the centralized payments infrastructure and requests

I think it's fine to temporarily add it to conversation-rewards until we implement permit requests.
The problem though is that if each plugin posts a comment about its rewards it becomes too noisy but if we let the kernel sum the rewards and post it then we lose metadata for example 'conversation-rewards' includes detailed information about rewards

[ubiquity-os-beta]

! Error: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/comments#create-an-issue-comment

[0x4007]

then we lose metadata for example 'conversation-rewards' includes detailed information about rewards

We just need to be mindful of comment character limits. Otherwise we can absolutely embed the metadata within each "field" as I mentioned in the other discussion we had about consolidating output comments from plugins.

[ubiquity-os-beta]

! Error: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/comments#create-an-issue-comment

[ishowvel]

Shouldnt this issue be moved to text-convo-rewards now?

[ubiquity-os-beta]

! Error: HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/comments#create-an-issue-comment

[gentlementlegen]

I will move it to conversation rewards in the meantime then.

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Edit: we cannot transfer because it is a different organization I suppose, so it's fine to keep it here, just link the pull request to this issue from text-conversation-rewards repository.

[ishowvel]

Also on a side note I have a general question, why does the text convo plugin handle all rewards and not just text convo rewards, why does it handle things like issue specification and assignee task completion reward

[ishowvel]

It would make the plugin simpler if the logic could be divided further into multiple plugins

[ishowvel]

/start

[ubiquity-os-beta]

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[ishowvel]

i dont have enough time to work on this so i will just point out instructions for future devs to work on this

[ishowvel]

/stop

[ishowvel]

1. Add a new type of reward to denote the amount of lines simplified in here
2. in the permit generation make a function to calculate the reward kinda like

async function getSimplifyReward(
  owner: string,
  repo: string,
  prNumber: number
): Promise<number> {
  try {
    const pr = await octokit.pulls.get({
      owner,
      repo,
      pull_number: prNumber,
    });

    const additions = pr.data.additions;
    const deletions = pr.data.deletions;

    return deletions > additions ? deletions - additions : 0;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error fetching PR data:", error);
    return 0;
  }
}

3. edit the github comment module to also include this reward