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Stats about new contributors #190

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Piedone opened this issue Jan 16, 2024 · 5 comments
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Stats about new contributors #190

Piedone opened this issue Jan 16, 2024 · 5 comments
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@Piedone
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Piedone commented Jan 16, 2024

During our community meeting at Orchard Core on the topic of integrating this action (OrchardCMS/OrchardCore#14585) it came up that it would be nice to have stats about new contributors as well.

I.e., in an issue like OrchardCMS/OrchardCore#15073, we'd also have a "Number of items opened by new contributors" line in the aggregated metrics table. A new contributor can be defined as somebody who GitHub indicates as a first-time contributor like this:

296902235-32f27aad-2c5a-4f0d-963b-722af1caedb2

I'm not sure how this is calculated. In any case, this would be a user who didn't yet author a contribution of that type (e.g., didn't open an issue before and thus they're a new contributor for issues) or didn't create any issues/discussions/PRs before in the project (whichever is easier to compute).

What do you think?

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zkoppert commented Feb 2, 2024

This seems like it could be accomplished. While there isn't an API endpoint to tell us if the user is contributing for the first time, I see that there are other projects like this one that accomplish this by checking to see if the issue/pr author has any other issues/prs in that repo previously. Then the "Number of items opened by new contributors" would be the sum of all the items found.

Seems like a good idea to me in order to quickly assess the overall volume of new contributor's contributions in that time period.

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Piedone commented Feb 2, 2024

Great! It seems it's doable for each contribution type separately, then.

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Piedone commented Mar 13, 2024

Well, we at Orchard Core are still interested in this.

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I would be very interested in this metric too! I run a small open source iOS app that I created fro Hacktoberfest last year, and I had 50 contributors in a month! I would love to be able to make weekly reports where I can see how many new contributors I have each week

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