| 16:45 | <ljharb> | thoughts on making the proposals table more concise by changing all the people's names to their notes shortcut + a link to the line in delegates.txt? |
| 16:55 | <ptomato> | could we just delete the authors and champions columns? |
| 16:55 | <ptomato> | that info is in each proposal's README anyway and the proposals table is just one more place for it to get out of date |
| 16:57 | <Michael Ficarra> | @ptomato it's a useful way to find which proposals a person is championing |
| 16:57 | <nicolo-ribaudo> | Do GitHub tables support <abbr> elements? <abbr title="Nicolò RIbaudo">NRO</abbr> |
| 16:57 | <Michael Ficarra> | (ashamedly, I have to search my own name on this page sometimes to remind me what I have to work on) |
| 16:58 | <ptomato> | I was going to ask "how often do you have to search the proposals page to look up what someone is championing" but I guess I have my answer 😄 |
| 16:59 | <Michael Ficarra> | not all of us can focus on a single proposal for 7 years straight |
| 17:00 | <ptomato> | how dare you sir. I've only been at this particular grindstone for 5 years 😄 |
| 17:01 | <ljharb> | yeah i definitely don't want to delete the info; individual proposals are inconsistent at storing info, which is why we added the reviewers column. |
| 17:01 | <ljharb> | i can definitely use an <abbr> as well as a link, that seems pretty accessible. including the full name will make the markdown much larger but the rendered table smaller. |
| 17:02 | <Richard Gibson> | sadly not: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/9681 |
| 17:02 | <ljharb> | boo |
| 17:03 | <ljharb> | so would just [JHD](link to my line in delegates.txt) be acceptable? i don't want to type out a full <a> :-) |
| 17:03 | <nicolo-ribaudo> | I guess we could start by shortening/removing the author and not the champion? It seems like it's less relevant info |
| 17:03 | <ljharb> | ah, just realized authors might not have delegates abbreviations |
| 17:03 | <ljharb> | so the shortening would only work for delegates |
| 17:52 | <Michael Ficarra> | still an improvement I guess |
| 18:01 | <bakkot> | I would prefer to keep the full names because I have not memorized everyone's abbreviations |
| 18:01 | <bakkot> | so it would be much harder to read if we replaced names with abbreviations |
| 18:01 | <bakkot> | I don't think concision is all that valuable for this |
| 18:13 | <ljharb> | even if all the abbreviations were clickable? |
| 18:14 | <Michael Ficarra> | I mean it's a big table and GH squeezes it into 900px |
| 18:14 | <Michael Ficarra> | concision helps |
| 18:17 | <ljharb> | another benefit is that there'd be a single source of truth for the correct spelling/accents/etc of someone's name |
| 19:15 | <bakkot> | yes because then I have to scroll through the entire table clicking every abbreviation |
| 19:15 | <bakkot> | which is much worse than just reading it |
| 19:39 | <ljharb> | would a hover with the full name (which is probably still worse) be tolerable? |
| 19:42 | <kriskowal> | If it also reminds me that Kevin means bakkot 😉 |
| 23:10 | <nicolo-ribaudo> | This is super early, however — a few of us will be taking the train to go to the A Coruña meeting in May (mostly from NL and UK). If anybody traveling from somewhere in western Europe wants to join us please write me a message by the end of February :) More details about this, if anybody wants to join. Right now we are about 5 people. https://noiseless-session-654.notion.site/A-Coru-a-2025-1aa8f6ddcc15807597f3ceb31cbd162f Feel free to message me :) |