Support for tracking commits pushed directly to branch

[rithviknishad]

Problem

In certain cases, contributions are made to a project by pushing a commit to a branch. Leaderboard currently does not track such activities performed by the contributor.

Action Items

• Update scraper to track commits pushed to a branch by a contributor. Tag those activities if it was made to the default branch or not.
• Update the contributor page to reflect the new information being captured.

[dgparmar14]

I want to work on this issue.

[dgparmar14]

@rithviknishad Please review the logic and the method used to fetch the default branch name in the provided code snippet.

[rithviknishad]

Do events show PushEvents from forked repos?

If not, I don't think this will be a great value addition since most of the contributions are from forked repos.

[dgparmar14]

Okay, So I need to track also a commits from contributors forked repositories and also show them in profile page, right ?

[rithviknishad]

Yeah, but is it possible?

[dgparmar14]

Yup, It's possible
Here are the steps

1. Fetch the main repository: First, fetch information about the main repository.
2. Fetch the forks of the main repository
3. Iterate through forks: For each fork, fetch the commits made by the contributors in their forked repositories.

We can create these two functions or one by merging these two and call this from scrapper function.

[dgparmar14]

@rithviknishad Even if we utilize the GraphQL API, we still encounter the same issue. We'd need to initially retrieve all repositories and their associated forks before we can access their commits. While pagination can help mitigate rate limit problems, it may not be applicable in this scenario since we're scraping data.

[dgparmar14]

@rithviknishad
In profile page we are showing currently working on feature , in profile page.
So, my idea is that when pr opend from than we will start tracking commits of that pr because i think it is more better and meaning full.another thing is currently working on, feature is shwoing scrapped data now. So i thought to change it to Api request when user hit the route . So is it fine to do this to fixes the issue?

[rithviknishad]

Yeah that'd be nice. That'd also bring ability to blend viewing of scrapped data with data from other sources