Styling the hall of fame about scala-lang HOT 16 CLOSED

Assigning this one to Jean Robert

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Ideas: break the top-k contributors into Typesafe, EPFL, and community. Do it on a monthly basis-- maybe on the first day of the month

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Tentative thing:
http://www2.scala-lang.org:8888/get-involved/scala-fame.html
The three categories should be displayed as 3 columns, I think.

@heathermiller is it OK for you?

I have not written a readme for using the tool, so basically:

scala-lang$ cd _tools/hall-of-fame/
hall-of-fame$ scala MakeHallOfFame.scala [Year Month] # default is last month
Building data for 2013-01
Downloading source data
Parsing JSON in source data
Building my data
Sorting by category
Outputting
Writing output to ../../get-involved/scala-fame-data/_posts/2013-04-01-scala-fame-2013-03.md
hall-of-fame$ cd -
scala-lang$ git status -s
?? get-involved/scala-fame-data/_posts/2013-04-01-scala-fame-2013-03.md
scala-lang$ git add get-involved/scala-fame-data/
scala-lang$ git commit -m "Scala fame for March 2013" && git push

This can probably be automated.

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Hmm- I forgot about this just being introduced, it's similar in a number of ways: https://github.com/scala/scala/pulse
Is this a problem? Should we try to differentiate somehow?

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I don't know. One thing that Hall of Fame does that Pulse does not is the categorization in Typesafe/EPFL/Community. I think this categorization is very good, because it gives a chance to contributors from the community to appear somewhere.

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Right, I know. But then again, it puts EPFL vs Typesafe. Maybe that's not so good either. Maybe we should just consolidate into one "Scala Team"?

Regardless, maybe we should try to think creatively about this one? Maybe we can add one more statistic to the mix that might be less-general but more specific to Scala?

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Right.
Now I know what's going to be on my mind when I go to sleep tonight, thanks!

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Me too
D':

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Just a thought-- it's already May 3rd, and our hall of fame is frozen at March. Jean Robert, could you:

• regenerate for April
• start a monthly cronjob somewhere on chara for this? (I think we still need Fabien to make us an account, no?)

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Regeneration for April done.
I'll take care of the cronjob.

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We're onto styling now, so I think this one is on me.

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I'll put this in the "before release" milestone. We've yet to define what exactly "before release" means now with this whole community idea

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Also– it seems that we're stuck on May: http://www2.scala-lang.org:8888/contribute/scala-fame.html. Not sure what the status of the cronjob is (@sjrd?)

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Well last month I realized that GitHub was apparently breaking the JSON API used by the script from time to time. To their credit, it's not documented anywhere.
So I told myself it might not be a good idea to really automate the application of the script. Rather, I'll do it myself every month. It's supposed to take me less than 3 minutes per month ... unless of course they break their API again.
But I'll configure GCalendar to send me a reminder every month so that I don't forget.

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the hall of fame was retired by #387

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