Credit where credit is due!

[romanlutz]

Since we now have a fully operational Twitter account @fairlearn we want to use it to give credit to our fantastic contributors!

This "discussion" thread is merely there to reach out to them to ask if they'd be interested in getting mentioned in a tweet. This can be as simple as

"Shoutout to @ for their/her/his first contribution to @fairlearn! "

or we can add a few more details about you if you'd like that! If you're interested please reach out to @romanlutz via Gitter DM.

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The other way of highlighting folks I stumbled upon today: https://allcontributors.org/
I'm hoping to enable this on our repo shortly if @fairlearn/fairlearn-maintainers agree. I would not map it to the README.md, but rather to a dedicated page on the website (provided that works). Alternatively, it could also replace AUTHORS.md. In any case, this makes AUTHORS.md in the current form obsolete. The main highlight in this (from my perspective) is that it's easy to give credit for non-code contributions that's actually visible!

Update: for now we're not using all-contributors since it's more heavyweight than AUTHORS.md, we may still forget to give credit to people (especially for past contributions). Also, #853 will give us another way of giving credit!

[romanlutz]

First batch of people who made (somewhat) recent code contributions: @trangology @stephenrobic @BrandonGoding @iofall @bthng @MeekaElla @koaning @michaelamoako @vamsidesu5 @thomasjpfan @LeJit @rishabhsamb @leonarduschen @JEHoctor @vladiliescu @Dref360 @brkifle

Please let me know if you'd like to be featured on Twitter for your contribution(s)!

[romanlutz]

I suppose I should have been clearer 😆
Should I interpret the thumbs up and hearts as consent to be featured? I guess so (?)
However, I don't know your Twitter handles (for most of you) so you'd have to DM me on Gitter.