[RFC] List of contributors per module

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/14/2016 6:10 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 06:51:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/24/2016 12:22 PM, Seb wrote:
>>> I recently made a PR to dlang.org which is aimed to show a list of all
>>> contributors to a Phobos module based on the git history.
>>> The idea is to give all the awesome people who have helped and contributed their
>>> earned credit!
>>
>> One idea is to add a "Contributors" button, and when clicked, it executes some
>> javascript that then loads and displays the avatars for the contributors.
>
> As there as been diverse feedback and no conclusion, I would like try to revive
> this discussion - preferably on Github [1].
> To argue against some of the posts here, a short summary of the Github discussion:
>
> 1) There's _no_ performance impact - everything is down lazily after the page
> was loaded (see Github for an detailed description)
> 2) The clutter isn't visible too most users anyhow as the contributer's list is
> shown at the bottom of the page
> 3) It currently would require a lot of hard-to-main ddoc hacks to due this at
> compile-time (see Github)

There's still the added net traffic (bad for mobile users).


> If you have better ideas how we could incorporate such statistics, let me know :)

Sure: One idea is to add a "Contributors" button, and when clicked, it executes 
some javascript that then loads and displays the avatars for the contributors.