Blitz: Create a bot that automatically adds people to the all-contributors list

[flybayer]

What do you want and why do you want it?.

I want a bot that automatically adds contributors to the all-contributor list or updates their contributions.

• Automatically detect and add different types of contributions such as: code, docs, PR review
• Contribution should be added regardless if the PR is merged or not
• Added contributions should be committed straight to canary branch (I think..)

Implementation

• We probably want to build this with Probot. Some of the core code can probably be copied from this all-contributors-bot
• We'll host this under our Vercel/Zeit account.

Comment here if you want to work on this — I'm happy to provide more information and guidance if you need!

[karankiri]

@flybayer I would love to work on this.

[flybayer]

@karankiri ok let's do it!

Then #228 can be added to this bot.

One problem we need to work out: I've removed the core team & maintainers from the all contributors list so they aren't on the readme twice. We can either add them back and just display twice (not that big of a deal), or we can fork the all-contributor code and make it also generate the maintainer list (this would be ideal)

Do you need anything from me to get started?

[flybayer]

You can create a dummy repo on your own account for dev and testing, then we can move it over here

[karankiri]

@flybayer I'll create a new repo on my account.

Contribution should be added regardless if the PR is merged or not

It should be added when PR is raised, is that right?

[flybayer]

So the code for this and for #228 (by @dajinchu) will go in the same bot (unless there's a good reason not to)

And we'll host it under the Blitz Vercel account, so I can set that up and also add the live Github keys for this repo

I think we should probably create a new repo just for the bot. What do y'all think?

[dajinchu]

Yeah a new repo would be perfect. I'm just messing around in my personal repo for now https://github.com/dajinchu/gh-project-bot/projects/1

[flybayer]

New repo here: https://github.com/blitz-js/bot-github

You both have direct access to it now

[flybayer]

@karankiri our bot is now live and working! So we're ready for you to add this all-contributor stuff!

[karankiri]

@flybayer Sorry for late reply, been busy with the work.

I've created a basic bot which identifies the contribution of following kind from file type.
.js | .ts | .sh -> code
.test.js | .test.ts -> test
.md | .txt -> docs
PR reviewer -> pull request.

_Can you help me with which all type of contribution type we need and how can I deduce this?_

I'll complete this over the weekend.

[Zeko369]

It would probably be smart to not auto add people by PR-reviews, because we'll get a lot of flyby reviews.

We already have a @flybayer 😛

[flybayer]

@karankiri that looks good!

Let's just start with code, test, and docs for now. Also make sure to check for jsx and tsx extensions.

[karankiri]

@flybayer Sure will do that.

[flybayer]

You can add this as a PR to https://github.com/blitz-js/bot-github. You already have commit access to that repo

[karankiri]

@flybayer Onto it. Will Send a PR by tomorrow.

[flybayer]

Closed in https://github.com/blitz-js/bot-github/pull/5