Should we use the all-contributors bot on this site?

[NickleDave]

Some OSS communities I'm part of use all-contributors to recognize contributions, esp those that are not necessarily code -- like website content 🙂

What do we think about doing that?

It just occurred to me while doing a review on a PR and pinging someone else to ask them if they want to review as well.
At pyOpenSci for example, we review content and then all the reviewers are added as contributors.
See for example this review of one of the sections in one of our guides:
pyOpenSci/python-package-guide#106 (comment)

I could imagine a similar review process for us: e.g. when @rinkug et al release the guide they've been putting so much work into, then a wider part of the community could review a PR adding it to this site. This not only gives everyone credit but also would help show visitors to our site the breadth of our community

It would require (1) giving the bot permissions and then (2) educating site maintainers about how the bot works.
See https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/bot/overview

[NickleDave]

Maybe I should look to see if we already have an all-contributors section in the README 🤦 (we do) -- thank you @mrmundt.
(repeating myself from the #website channel in slack ...)

Looks like we have an Actions set up called "allcontributors-auto-detect" but it's kind of flaky?
https://github.com/USRSE/usrse.github.io/pulls?q=is%3Apr+all-contributors

If we were to use the bot directly, we'd have to remember/know to ask it to add contributors on PRs, for specific things.
AFAICT we are not doing that already.