[RFC] List of contributors per module

Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 24 16:50:29 PDT 2016


I enjoy a good ego stroking, but there are enough issues with the docs being cluttered and harder to 
digest than necessary already.  I'm not a big fan of adding more clutter.

On 5/24/16 12:22 PM, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hei,
>
> 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!
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1307
>
> A couple of questions from this PR are still open though:
>
> 1) How can we best integrate this with the author section?
> - Should we move this into the header?
> - Maybe a module could also have a current maintainer(s) (that is in charge of approving changes)
>
> 2) Should we show the avatars? They are loaded lazily, so they don't block the page load.
> If neccessary out of privacy concerns, contribs.dlang.io could act as a proxy.
>
> 3) I would prefer to generate this information on deploy-time, but rolling a small (vibe.d) service
> was a lot easier than integrating this properly in the current Makefile. Maybe once we migrate to
> ddox this would be easier?


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