[HN Gopher] Show HN: Check if a GitHub repo is open to contribut...
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       Show HN: Check if a GitHub repo is open to contributions
        
       Author : gieksosz
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-01-02 15:20 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (merge-chance.info)
        
       | kevinjahns wrote:
       | My projects get a very discouraging rate of ~60%. That is
       | probably because I reject a lot of PRs created by bots
       | (dependabot, security fixes if they are only to dev
       | dependencies).
       | 
       | Maybe because I merge commits manually.
       | 
       | I remember rejecting only a few PRs.
       | 
       | It seems very discouraging for new contributors.
        
       | kaedroho wrote:
       | Does this account for projects that merge commits outside of the
       | GitHub interface?
       | 
       | NodeJS use a bot that manually merges the commits but closes the
       | PRs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36661
        
       | gieksosz wrote:
       | Author here! This is a small web app written in Python Flask and
       | deployed on Cloud Run. It extracts data from GitHub via their
       | GraphQL API and caches it in Firestore (just because it is way
       | cheaper for a low traffic side project than running Redis).
        
       | kraenhansen wrote:
       | I think this is a great idea! I can definitely see the use of it
       | as a maintainer of an open source project.
        
         | gieksosz wrote:
         | Thanks! I am also thinking about adding percentage of stale PRs
         | and/or median time to get merged.
        
       | timvdalen wrote:
       | Looks cool!
       | 
       | One feature recommendation: you might want to consider supporting
       | people submitting the entire URL. Currently, when you do that,
       | you hit a 500.
        
         | gieksosz wrote:
         | fixed and deployed
        
         | gieksosz wrote:
         | true! I have just realised that. I will fix that. Thanks for
         | feedback!
        
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