Link to User Profile instead of email

[emptymalei]

Thank you for making such a useful plugin.

I am wondering if it is useful to provide an option to link to the user profile (e.g., GitHub profile) instead of email?

For example, return

[
    {
    'name' : 'Jane Doe',
    'email' : '[email protected]',
    'profile': 'https://github.com/jane',
    'last_datetime' : datetime.datetime(),
    'lines' : 200,
    'contribution' : '40.0%'
  }
]

Thanks.

[timvink]

Yeah it would be, but it's not as straightforward as it might seem.

Some challenges:

• profile could also be github, gitlab, bitbucket, azure devops, etc.
• from the git commit logs, we can only find the name and email address. however, many users don't share their email publicly (including me), which means we cannot use the github API to find the profile. We could use name to search the github users api, but that does not guarantee a correct result.
• We would need to make API calls, which means mkdocs build should have access to the internet. That's not always the case (f.e. when working behind a company proxy).

A more detailed analysis can be found in #15

Because there is not an elegant solution design for this, I don't want to pick this up now..