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Identify authors by their GitHub user name + real profile human name #11

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xmojmr opened this issue Jul 21, 2014 · 0 comments
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xmojmr commented Jul 21, 2014

User story

As a developer I want to find stuff developed by "Mike Bostock" whatever is his current nick name in whatever community system I'm searching through. I just want to enter the name and get the results

Rationale

many developers are better known by their human name. e.g. "TJ Holowaychuk" is a well known name. While their GitHub nicknames ("visionmedia" in this case) are not well known outside the community. Using the human names would improve the human dimension of the search tool. It would be more visible who gets the credit ("..Credit is the primary currency of the free software world..") and much easier for newcomers to find friends

Implementation notes

This is not currently available in the component-crawler dataset but should not be difficult to get it (and cache it) through the GitHub API. Especially when the number of authors is quite small, definitelly smaller then GitHub Rate Limit 5000 requests per hour

@xmojmr xmojmr added this to the 1.1.0 SEO friendly milestone Jul 21, 2014
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