Add a contributor without creating an issue / comment

[gr2m]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

A new backer joined nock’s open collective, there are is no issue or pull request on the repository I could comment on.

Describe the solution you'd like

I wonder if the app could provide a custom UI to add a new contributor. E.g. there could be something like https://app.allcontributors.org/add-contributor with an OAuth authentication flow and a form that matches the current comment syntax to add a new contributor

Describe alternatives you've considered

I’ve created a new issue which is a decent alternative: I created one here:
nock/nock#1461

One thing that would be cool is if the pull request created for the new issue would include closes #123

I added it manually now

nock/nock#1462

[chadfawcett]

Could the bot support more types of webhooks? This would require the external services to have some sort of trigger option available, but could be a step in the right direction. Doesn't look like Open Collective has webhooks available for donations, but they do have a custom redirect option.

You could set the redirect url in OC to point to the bot. The bot would grab the transaction id from the url, invoke a lambda to handle making a PR based on the transaction, and then redirect the user again to the final destination.

[gr2m]

I think I’d leave the integration between Open Collective and all-contributors to the maintainers, I wouldn’t assume that everyone would want to list financial backers as contributors, too.

The app is built with Probot, and Probot can expose custom routes to receive whatever we want. It can also serve custom UIs

[chadfawcett]

Sorry, thought you were a maintainer since you added the label to this issue. Now I see it's part of the issue template.

[Berkmann18]

@gr2m The custom UI idea seems good to me.
Regarding the closes #123 thing, that's something I agree would be cool although I'm not sure what would be the best way to get the bot to know that an issue was created specifically for the add action and if so then add the closure directive in the PR's body.

As for the backer listing as financial contributors, that's something we are okay with and I believe @jakebolam mentioned nock about that backer -> financial contributor change.

In any case, feel free (@chadfawcett same goes for you) to open a PR for that.

[tenshiAMD]

@gr2m greetings, looks like I can start the UI for this one since this will have almost the same implementation

[gr2m]

Sure, go ahead 👍🏼