Synonyms

[krzkaczor]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I tried adding new contributos for idea and docs but the proper terms where ideas and doc.

Describe the solution you'd like
Solution is to allow synonyms for contribution types. Probably bot, or CLI should always normalize to one form but user interface should be as simple as possible.

[Berkmann18]

The bot already supports synonyms and such. The CLI will point out when you're not using the correct terms; at the same time it has prompts which allow you to specify the username and contributions.

[krzkaczor]

My experience was that CLI was just ignoring them:

all-contributors add someone code idea

but now i realized that it was because CLI takes only one argument 🤦‍♂ my fault. Nvm.

I think if synonyms are supported this should be noted in https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key

[Berkmann18]

@krzkaczor The CLI takes more than one argument unless you're using check, generate or the upcoming fetch one.

I think if synonyms are supported this should be noted in https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key

That's the general emoji-key which don't have the variations (what I meant when I wrote about the bot supporting synonyms) and having synonyms in the spec would make the whole thing unnecessarily complex (especially in areas where there's NO NLP/ML).

[Berkmann18]

@krzkaczor Is this still a problem?

[krzkaczor]

yeah i think I ll just close this ;) Thanks!