100 Days of GitHub Contributions

Re:100 Days of GitHub Contributions by shekhar101 on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @09:44AM (#7704366)

Interesting. I saw one other post few days back(don't have link handy). OP had contributed for 100 days. Question to you(and others) How do you select projects for that?

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Re:100 Days of GitHub Contributions by ionforce on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:00AM (#7704464)

As I currently understand it, any commit you push to the main branch (so not wip/feature branches) will count towards your activity graph being filled out. This includes projects in your own repo.

So I'm assuming you were referring to the possible difficulty of finding and selecting projects to contribute to. You can also contribute to ones of your own.

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Re:100 Days of GitHub Contributions by rtpg on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:03AM (#7704480)

Also the chart backfills, so if you work in a feature branch and it gets merged into a main branch, github looks at the dates of your commits and uses that.

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Re:100 Days of GitHub Contributions by jaxbot on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:53AM (#7704819)

As I mentioned in the comments on my site (not sure if you're the same poster), I work on a lot of personal projects, as well as any open source software I use or want to try out, but have issues with that I can fix. It's interesting to be able to resolve other peoples' issues. Gives you that warm fuzzy feeling.

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Re:100 Days of GitHub Contributions by phalgun_g on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:44AM (#7704749)

also what if your pull request doesn't get merged?

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Re:100 Days of GitHub Contributions by jaxbot on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:52AM (#7704810)

You still get your local contribution; merges are counted as contributions by the person who presses merge. It makes sense in terms of what really happens in terms of Git, I guess.

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