Add badge capabilities to users

[techknowlogick]

Similar to how github profiles have badges/achievements, this adds the capabilities to Gitea to be able to utilize that in the future

[noerw]

I don't get it, whats the use case for this?

[techknowlogick]

I don't get it, whats the use case for this?

@noerw for community instances, where they may wish to "award" some badge for certain situations.

[noerw]

I don't get it, whats the use case for this?

@noerw for community instances, where they may wish to "award" some badge for certain situations.

Sorry to be that guy, but this feels very feature-creepy to me.
Gamification as a network effect multiplier kinda makes sense for a platform like GitHub, but should this really be a Gitea feature? (yes I'm biased; i don't like gamification).

Currently this PR is rather slim LoC-wise, but until it's a working feature (configure badges via UI or config file, updating badges via cron task or adding hooks into every other route), I'd estimate some extra 500LoC, lower bound.

[lafriks]

Badges can be useful also in private instances to motivate developers etc
I don't think we need UI in gitea to manage that, only API. Service to manage badges and add for users can be developed outside of Gitea core.

[noerw]

Badges can be useful also in private instances to motivate developers etc

Developers do meaningful work when they are intrinsically motivated, not by some made up metric or status icon. But what do I know.

I don't think we need UI in gitea to manage that, only API. Service to manage badges and add for users can be developed outside of Gitea core.

Doing hundreds of API calls to check if a badge should be applied seems more than wasteful to me.

I'll shut up, seems like I'm in the minority here

[silverwind]

It's probably not the best way to reward developers, but I see no problem in at least supporting it on a invisible api- or even database-only level.

[a1012112796]

wonder how to add badge?

[lunny]

Could you put a screenshot?

[techknowlogick]

Could you put a screenshot?

updated with a screenshot

[lafriks]

Would be nice to have followup PR to add API that would be accessible only for admin to define badges and add user badges

[bauermarkus]

Is this released? I haven't found it on the release notes

[techknowlogick]

@bauermarkus yup, it's in 1.18, however it's just the absolute base code needed to present badges stored in the DB to show on user's profiles. I have a followup PR where you can manage badges with the API.