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Stats about new contributors #190
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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:
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 commentedon 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.
Piedone commentedon Feb 2, 2024
Great! It seems it's doable for each contribution type separately, then.
github-actions commentedon Mar 13, 2024
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Piedone commentedon Mar 13, 2024
Well, we at Orchard Core are still interested in this.
mikaelacaron commentedon Jul 26, 2024
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