[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)
(HTM) web link (merge-chance.info)
(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).
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| Maybe because I merge commits manually.
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| I remember rejecting only a few PRs.
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| It seems very discouraging for new contributors.
| kaedroho wrote:
| Does this account for projects that merge commits outside of the
| GitHub interface?
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| 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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