Alphabetize the about us page

[crutchcorn]

Alphabetize the about us page

[evelynhathaway]

I think we should sort by contributions as well, as for the metric:
• Additions/deletions reward long blog posts, but also rewards changes to the package-lock.json
• Commits seems to less reflect the amount of work put into the project
• PRs merged to master seems like another option to consider, though it's still not perfect because there's always many other ways to contribute

[crutchcorn]

Hey @chtnnh - this is immensely appreciated, but I have actually done this work in #867

Instead, do you have any interest in this issue?

#856

[crutchcorn]

Copying some convo on this ticket from our Discord:

Once there are enough people for it to make sense, would it be more comprehensive to organize by role, then list alphabetically within that?

I think at that point we should sort by official team members and THEN contributors

I know some OSS projects do by # of commits

I think # of commits would be reasonable

Paging @adueppen @fennifith @evelynhathaway as we never resolved this one - do we want to sort by commit # long-term? (I still think as a short-term gap sorting by alphabet until further development can be done on #65 (which discusses some design considerations for the technical aspect of tracking commit #s))

[adueppen]

I think for now sorting alphabetically would be reasonable, although I think the whole commit # sort is probably the best option. Alternatively, though, it might make sense to sort by amount of stuff added/removed/modified (see here because although I've made several more commits than @fennifith, he's definitely contributed more to the site so far IMO. I imagine sorting that way could get a bit complicated (although it seems like it should at least be possible to get the stats from the GH API).

[crutchcorn]

While I agree using the GH API could solve the commit #/added-removed problem, there's a lot of nuance about doing so. You can see more about said nuance in #65 (which I'd like to keep most of the convo about git/github for now if possible please :) )

Additionally, I personally wouldn't want to track on added/removed. Even tho I have my qualms about tracking based on commit #, I have even bigger qualms trying to track LOC as any form of measurable contribution. (both as it propegates incorrect assumptions about quality of devwork that has inherent issues from a technical viewpoint, but also because it actively devalues the work of first-time or early/cleanup contributors)

[adueppen]

Yeah and I definitely get that as well. Trying to figure out the best way to sort the people on the about page is most definitely going to be an issue with no easy solution, if someone were to make 500 commits where in each one they changed only a single character vs. someone else making a single commit changing 500 characters that evidently shouldn't imply that one person contributed 500 times more than the other.

[RobinHerzig]

Has a decision been made on how you'd like the contributors sorted?

My experience in TypeScript and GraphQL is limited so working on this would be a learning experience. If that's ok, and if no one else is working on this, I'd like to give it a try.

[crutchcorn]

It's time to do this properly as part of #867, as we're no longer relying on the array of people to dictate the order.

Nowadays, we have our partner program. As such, we're going to sort partners first (one of the perks we're offering, especially since a future redesign of the About Us page will have partners listed separately before other contributors), then by whatever metric we should decide.

I vote that we keep it simple and do alphabetical. Otherwise, we could sort by how many achievements (a new feature since this was last discussed) someone has.

What do we think?

[chtnnh]

@crutchcorn I came across unicorn-utterances on LinkedIn via a post on "The Framework Field Guide". Would love to help out!

Since this is a beginner friendly issue and is not critical in the near future, would love to begin here. Let me know if it's okay to send a PR and I'll shoot one across at the earliest possible time I can

[chtnnh]

@crutchcorn would recommend we follow something along the lines of the recommendations of https://stacking.dev to quickly onboard high-intent contributors to the community.

requesting you to start a discord thread on this, as opposed to a github issue. (in my limited experience maintaining open source projects, 1 central store for related information always helps)