I know I'm pretty late to the party here, but I wanted to voice my concerns regarding maintainability of such a list.
My experience tells me that things that won't make a CI fail and yell at you will get outdated pretty quickly and don't receive much maintenance. Some of our packages have contributors lists in their package.json for example. However they are not current but rather a snapshot from an arbitrary point in time. Actually I wanted to open some PRs for removing them for some time, but there had always been other, more important things to get done. So how about, instead of maintaining a manual list that is bound to become outdated quickly, we try to leverage commit data from our repositories? I think of something like showing the most active committers of the last two years or something like that. Essentially a version of GitHub's Contributors[1] but aggregated over all our repos. I guess something like that should be achievable by using GitHub's API. <https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/graphs/contributors?from=2018-04-02&to=2020-04-02&type=c> If this doesn't cover all bases we could still expand upon it: Add some static entries (e.g. PMC Chair), or show extended member profiles/bios in the dynamically generated list. I'm looking forward to your opinions. And thank you Niklas for the work you already put in. Cheers, Raphael [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-lib/graphs/contributors?from=2018-04-02&to=2020-04-02&type=c Am Sa., 22. Feb. 2020 um 15:55 Uhr schrieb Niklas Merz < niklasm...@apache.org>: > Hi everyone, > > Like discussed before I think it might be a good idea to add a page to > our website for Cordova users to get to know the community members. > > I am writing here because to me this only makes sense if most of the > active committers are involved and want to be part of this list. > > I created this PR with the first draft and some screenshots: > https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/pull/1063 > > There are still some open points to do and discuss. I am not the best > web designer and would appreciate any help. Feel free to push to this > branch or create PRs any time. > > Looking forward to make this happen. > > Kind regards > Niklas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > >
