wishlist: list author's contributions on author page

[karenetheridge]

Now that the x_contributors meta field is taking off (e.g. see https://metacpan.org/source/DAGOLDEN/HTTP-Tiny-0.029/META.json) and the list of contributors is visible in a distribution's right sidebar (under the author), it would be awesome if an author's contributions were also visible on the author's own page (perhaps above their favourited dists? or as a separate page, or a collapsable iframe?)

This would help encourage newbie authors and contributors, as it's a tangible list to point to and say "I made an impact! I am helping!"

[monken]

Prerequisite is that we properly index that field. Right now it is retrievable but not searchable.

[monken]

And by properly I mean that we have to split out the pause ID, email address and put them in separate fields. I wish we would have done that form the beginning (#781 (comment)).

[yanick]

Well, it was not there, and then it was there, and then there was a backlash for it not to be there again. The good thing, though, is that now every single possible implementation of those fields exist in the branch of #781. :-)

On a more serious note, I can understand that on the external-facing need to keep things simple. In that regard, just asking for a name and an email is reasonable. But nothing prevent us, I guess, to do some post-munging of those data in ES...

[ranguard]

Moved to wish list: https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki/Wishlist