Include collaborators/team members in the README?

[alopezsanchez]

Like nodejs/node README does.

[joyeecheung]

So..one thing to consider. Listing people in the README makes it less quite for inactive people to leave later, as is the case with Node core. It puts extra expectations/responsibilities on the collaborators, even for the people in the collaborator team who are already TSC members. An informal team makes things simpler.

That said, I don't mind listing people in the README if everyone listed approve the PR.

[Tiriel]

Maybe then could we just list the Collaborators, and not the team members? I get your point @joyeecheung but I feel it would still help identify who to ping on specific questions, but maybe I'm wrong.

[MM422]

I agree with @Tiriel , I think the list will become hard to maintain if you list all members on our team.

[joyeecheung]

@Tiriel well if it's just for the ping, you can ping the whole team with @nodejs/automation and @nodejs/automation-collaborators and @nodejs/automation-admins(I've put the text in backticks because I am not actually pinging everyone in this thread, but you know.)

(Or maybe I should ping everyone in this thread?)

[refack]

I'm +1 on listing, as all other WGs do, but I don't feel strongly.

[vicky002]

I don't think it's needed. If will be an extra pain to keep updating it with the time, adding removing etc. Also, NodeJS/node, all the email addresses are public, it sometimes leads to spam, as per my experience.

I agree with @joyeecheung, one can ping the whole team, whenever it's needed.

[Tiriel]

well if it's just for the ping, you can ping the whole team with @nodejs/automation and @nodejs/automation-collaborators and @nodejs/automation-admins (I've put the text in backticks because I am not actually pinging everyone in this thread, but you know.)

True, but as said, it also seems to be some sort of "standard" amongst aother teams/WG. I do think it helps putting "faces" on a project. But indeed, listing everyone and keeping the list up to date would be a pain in the arse, so collaborators only seems a good compromise to me.

And just in case, we can make this list on a "voluntary listing oneself" basis. Each person can opt-out of the listing if they want (without actually opting-out of the team/collaborators).

Would that satisfy everyone?

[joyeecheung]

As mentioned in nodejs/diagnostics#127 (comment) we could actually let the bot sync the team membership and the README.