Create data file to store information of authors

[cseas]

There should be a single place from where posts can collect information about the authors to display, given their username. This can be done by adding them in the _config.yml file or creating a separate data file for authors.

I'd recommend creating a separate data file since there already are a lot of authors on the blog and more to come. Here's an example

[Amorpheuz]

We could also implement them as a Collection rather than a Data file which should allow us to make authors have their own pages for displaying any related info. Collections allow outputting rendered pages for documents.

I would love to hear what others have to say about either of the approaches.

[cseas]

Using Collections for automatically rendering author pages sounds like a good idea. If I understand correctly, we can implement Collections in a _data file as discussed Jekyll Issues.

Until the author data is implemented as a Collection, we might need to create separate pages manually for each author as done here.

[karx]

I would sway in the way of either

• Going for data file for authors now, until we have a need when need to personalize an author link
• Going for collections, and let Authors create this for themselves. Also add it Setup an information page on writing posts for Authors #10 Guidelines/onboarding program

The third approach mentioned @cseas about using separate pages does not make sense to me. We should restrict the _pages for thing like - about us, team, donate, 404, etc. (if and when needed)

[asdofindia]

This was closed automatically. Feel free to reopen or create new issue if we want to switch to collections.

At the moment I think it is okay to not have separate generated pages for authors (let us focus on content and let us push people to publish to get their name somewhere on the blog)