Create matrix of people as subject matter experts

[mosabua]

In our Trino Contributor Call we talked about establishing a matrix or so of people in the community and their focus/knowledge in terms of contributing to Trino. The aim is to have a list of people for different parts that you can ping in pull request and design reviews and so on.

My current idea is to implement a data file on the website about people and their areas and roles and whatever, similar to users as well as the ecosystem pages.

I can then use the data file to render multiple pages or a single page with different sections for roles, skills, and so on and with info like github username, full name, linkedin profile or whatever else desired.

I think the website is the right place since it has the infrastructure for this already in place, and the scope of the list should be all projects within the trinodb org.

I can start with collecting the info for all maintainers and subproject maintainers and a number of other experts I am aware of. From there we can then crowdsource and get individuals to update their own info as well as supply info for others.

[findepi]

... and subject matters

dod you mean "subject matter experts"?

[mosabua]

... and subject matters

dod you mean "subject matter experts"?

I reworded along that notion.

[mosabua]

Talked to @martint and @dain and received approval to proceed. Will start on this shortly.

[mosabua]

Current attributes and details I can think of:

• people.yml as metadata file
• so we can use for various aspects including later for example blog post authors or whatever
• create different output in terms of sorting - by name, filtered by skill,
• maybe even have a page or section per person
• to start with just do the normal liquid based rendering, maybe later we can just have a table with some javascript filtering and sorting as well

Attributes for each person:

• github username (link)
• role (maintainer, subproject maintainer, contributor, language lead, bdfl)
• first name, last name, full name
• slack username (link)
• projects (trino, trino-gateway...)
• areas of expertise, trino specific only (not like.. knows about tree planting), start at high evel, get smaller and see how much is manageable

[findinpath]

Please reference the list of SMEs in the PR issue template. The Trino contributors should be aware who to add as reviewers for their PR.

[mosabua]

Good idea @findinpath