Explore & implement options how to show contributors on sktime presence

[GuzalBulatova]

Option 1. Paste an image generated by contrib.rocks
PRO: avatars are organised by total amount of contribution, easy to introduce, especially on the .org
con: doesn't show recently active and new contributors, GitHub handles, type of contribution

Option 2. Add a hall-of-fame widget
PRO: shows recently active and new contributors, GitHub handles
con: doesn't show type of contribution, shows only 7 at a time

Option 3. Make the contributors.md more visible.
PRO: shows all contributors in alphabetical order, type of contribution, GitHub handle
con: doesn't show recently active and new contributors

Option 4. Create a separate sections like on fastapi page
PRO: shows contributors in herarchical order, GitHub hanlde, N of PRs, different groups of contributors
con: doesn't show type of contribution, unclear how that list is generated (manually updated?)

My suggestion is to
paste the contributors.md generated image on the landing page of sktime.org, and introduce hall-of-fame in GitHub readme.

[lmmentel]

I really like this idea. Have you seen the fast api's people page https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/fastapi-people/? Might be worth checking it out as inspiration since it is quite nicely organized.

[GuzalBulatova]

@lmmentel Thank you for suggestion, I like how it's organised on their page! I'd maybe have less categories but I think having it as a separate page on .org site is a great option. Do you know how they created that page?

[lmmentel]

I think I can piece together the wokrflow. FYI they are using mkdocs not sphinx but it shouldn't be that big of a difference. As far as I understand here is the process:

• the page template is written in markdown, in a file called fastapi-people.md
• the data to populate the template sits in people.yml
• the script for generating the people.yml is called main.py and is run as a github action defined in the people folder

[GuzalBulatova]

Thank you for breaking it down, Łukasz!

[lmmentel]

No worries, let me know if there's anything I can help with.

[GuzalBulatova]

action GB: post this in core-devs channel and create a vote

[GuzalBulatova]

Based on the results of the poll, majority's decision are options 2 and 4.

Added issues sktime/sktime#3716 and sktime/sktime#3717

[fkiraly]

Nov 8: issues created
sktime/sktime#3717
sktime/sktime#3716

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