Heya, Now that GitHub needs are addressed through a github field in contributors.json and WebKit moved from IRC to Slack, is there still a need for the nicks field? Based on a suggestion on Slack I'm thinking of removing it from https://webkit.org/team/ and I might as well clean up contributors.json at the same time. Kind regards, Anne
I think that nicks are handy in a couple cases: 1. Finding people on Slack. For this, they would probably need to stay on https://webkit.org/team. 2. Bugzilla autocomplete - I type "smfr" and do not need to scroll like if I typed "Simon". This could be addressed by switching to GitHub names in autocomplete code. - Alexey
24 окт. 2022 г., в 2:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren via webkit-dev <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> написал(а):
Heya,
Now that GitHub needs are addressed through a github field in contributors.json and WebKit moved from IRC to Slack, is there still a need for the nicks field?
Based on a suggestion on Slack I'm thinking of removing it from https://webkit.org/team/ and I might as well clean up contributors.json at the same time.
Kind regards,
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On Oct 24, 2022, at 1:57 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov via webkit-dev <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote:
1. Finding people on Slack. For this, they would probably need to stay on https://webkit.org/team.
If they were consistently the Slack nicknames. But they often aren’t! The nicknames currently in there don’t necessarily match the Slack ones and obviously don’t match the GitHub account names. I wish these were more explicit about what they are! I had no idea that they were the ones still used in bugs.webkit.org. I would love to see the list of what name each person used on what service, email, bugs.webkit.org <http://bugs.webkit.org/>, Slack, and GitHub, if there was some economical way of doing it. — Darin
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:07 PM Darin Adler <darin@apple.com> wrote:
If they were consistently the Slack nicknames. But they often aren’t! The nicknames currently in there don’t necessarily match the Slack ones and obviously don’t match the GitHub account names. I wish these were more explicit about what they are! I had no idea that they were the ones still used in bugs.webkit.org. I would love to see the list of what name each person used on what service, email, bugs.webkit.org, Slack, and GitHub, if there was some economical way of doing it.
Presumably bugs.webkit.org is going the way of the dodo so that should solve itself. Not sure what the timeline for that will be, but we can wait with removing nicks until that happens. For Slack we could have a dedicated slack field to capture the user ID which would allow us to create a variety of "deep" links (e.g., to the user's profile or to direct message the user). We currently do not surface email addresses on the website, but we could. Would it make sense to surface just the first email address listed? (As with GitHub I would use an icon here so it shouldn't take up a lot of space.)
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:11 PM Anne van Kesteren via webkit-dev < webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote:
We currently do not surface email addresses on the website, but we could. Would it make sense to surface just the first email address listed?
We don't use email addresses usually through WebKit development. I don't like the idea of exposing email addresses on the web. There are a lot of inactive members in contributors.json. We can't make a consensus to do it.
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