I'm +1 for this and would add my bio. I'll take a look at your PR this week.
Before merging, I think we should gather at least 5 volunteers who would add their bio, too. Best, Tim On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 10:18 PM Niklas Merz <niklasm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to bring this back up. I managed to get this built > automatically from markdown files, where every team member could > describe themselves if they like to. I really liked the introduction > part of the last hangout and this would basically be the written form. > > I would really like to see this come to live. The reason is that as an > outsider I cannot get any information who the people behind this project > are. Like discussed there is information from Apache (which we link to > [1] on the contribute page) who is part of this PMC but it's just a list > of 99 names. The new page may become outdated but it gives users an idea > who some of the active committers are right now and how and why they > work on Cordova. > > If we could add like 5 active committers with their bio why they work on > Cordova to the page I would consider this a huge win to show the project > is alive and committers are invested in Cordova for many different reasons. > > Somehow related we could updated the tools and apps on the homepage. We > link Phonegap (discontinued), Ionic (old logo and service information), > Visual Studio (discontinued) etc. there. > > Here is my PR: https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/pull/1063 > > Looking forward to feedback and reviews > Niklas > > [1] http://home.apache.org/phonebook.html?unix=cordova > > On 2020/04/03 06:30:05, "Niklas Merz" <niklasm...@apache.org> wrote: > > Good ideas. Yes a manual list will probably be outdate quickly. The > interesting part for this team page is a bio/description who you are and > how you work on Cordova I think. Like if you are working with Cordova on > you side projectes or you are part of Company heavily invested in > Cordova. Stuff like that. > > > > Maybe we should fetch a list of all committers from the official Apache > sources and sort/enricht them with the recently most active commiters and > possibly their bio/description. > > > > This definitly needs further ideas. > > > > April 2, 2020 10:39 PM, "Jan Piotrowski" <piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There are existing tools that do what you suggest Raphael, mostly to > > > put contributors into READMEs of projects but I am sure that could be > > > abused to put it into a Markdown file that is included in the docs. > > > > > > Apache also has a site that lists all PMC members etc (that I think > > > uses some AJAX + a JSON file), so one could probably easily build a > > > tool on top of that to regularly update a list for example. > > > > > > -J > > > > > > Am Do., 2. Apr. 2020 um 12:04 Uhr schrieb <raphine...@gmail.com>: > > > > > >> 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. 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