W3C developers landing page: Hall of Fame

[gbaudusseau]

It could be nice to implement a "Hall of Fame" to give recognition to our best contributors.

[darobin]

This is something that @shepazu has mentioned before. We certainly have the data to obtain this information for anything that's in GitHub, and with the unified feed we could extend it to other sources of information. I am however a little concerned with the gamification. It's nice to recognise contributors, but it's hard to do it well — we don't want the Web Standards Klout!

We could just count commits but that excludes the people who contribute extensively through reviews, and they are pretty important. If we count issues and comments, it gives credit to people who open a lot of useless issues or keep repeating the same comments.

So before we do this I'd like someone to have a clear idea of how we can make it work nicely.

One related thing that we could have is a "trending" page. Count commits+issues+comments+stars+forks+PRs across repositories and show a list of those that have seen the most activity in the past week. I can imagine there being a community interested in what's hot in web standards right now.

[gbaudusseau]

I love the idea of a webpage talking about what's hot in the web standards right now :). I will think about it, and maybe we can add it in the developers landing page?

Concerning the hall of fame, I think we can do something like:

• contributiors page (with count issues, PRs, support/help with the community etc...) We can also for example try to catch if someone is very helpful on StackOverflow for the result of the validators/checkers.
• Starred People: Based on our own judgement. If someone is very helpful or has done a very good job on an Open Source project we can starred him for a month in a special page and at the same time speak about their story like mozilla stories. WDYT?