Proposal to get more maintainers about awesome-open-geoscience

[prisae]

Thanks for writing this down @JustinGOSSES. I am hardly active at all I have to admit. Would a #AwesomeOpenGeoscience chanel in the Swung-Slack help to ping/push people, or just be yet another distraction? I am not sure myself.

Either way, I think to post it in #general or in #open-geoscience trying to find additional maintainers would definitely be a good idea!

[JustinGOSSES]

Having a separate Slack channel is an interesting idea. It might help as back channel where maintainers can say "can't take this one" or we need someone with experience in X?

On one hand, I like to keep all discussion in one place. On other hand, a Slack channel is going to encourage certain discussion that will not happen in issues, which tend to be more formal & controlled.

There's a channel in SoftwareUnderground for welly & lasio things. I'll ask in there for feedback.

[JustinGOSSES]

I'm going to risk being rude and ping a few people who have spent some time on this repository who I would expect may have thoughts just as a I know otherwise the onslaught of GitHub notifications can hide things. @amoodie @EvanBianco @prisae @JesperDramsch @banesullivan @mycarta

[JustinGOSSES]

It occurred to me during a recent PR that I figured out where to go to figure out what links have broken a PR, which can be not at all obvious for a new maintainer. As part of this issue, it might help to have documentation for (1) how to fix merge conflicts and (2) where to find out what links are the problems when links breaking stops the PR.

This is what I put in a PR today and could be used as a starting point for documentation:

I clicked on the area that says DETAILS next to .github/workflows/link_checker.yml / linkChecker (pull_request) Failing after 27s then clicked on Lychee Link Checker then looked at the bottom of that output, where I found the message below:

[README.md]:
✗ [404] http://fuzzylas.appspot.com/ | Network error: Not Found
✗ [404] https://www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/digitalisation-in-our-dna/volve-field-data-village-download.html | Network error: Not Found