Tool to report new contributors across Servo repository

[jdm]

This is the tracking issue for the work necessary for this NCSU project description.

[lnishan]

Can non-NCSU students take on this project?

I'm interested in getting this project started, but I wonder if this is a reserved project for NCSU students. At the moment, this project seems a lot more approachable to me compared to other ones listed in the Wiki.

[jdm]

Sorry, we will need to wait for those students to turn it down before anybody else can work on it.

[lnishan]

@jdm
No problem! I understand :)

Thanks for replying!

[Nikhila-B]

We have two questions related to the initial steps:

1. Code Base: Is there any existing code base we are working on or sending a pull request to later? Or are we creating our own repository and creating this tool independently?

2. Language: Our plan is to use javascript to interact with the GitHub API when creating our tools. Will this be okay ? we are open to any expectations and/or recommendations.

[jdm]

There is no existing codebase. JavaScript should be fine for this, but I recommend using a library that wraps the github api for you.

[Nikhila-B]

There are two tools, we are writing in the initial steps. We were not sure if we completely understand what the first is one is about

Tool # 1: create a tool that initializes a JSON file with the known authors for a local git repository

Are we redirecting the contributors list to a file? Any kind of clarification would help.

[jdm]

The goal of the first tool is to set up a list of the known contributors, which will make the output of the second tool more meaningful in the future (otherwise it would report each contributor as a new contributor, even if that is not the case).

[Nikhila-B]

Hi Josh, we would like you take a look at our repository - we will be wrapping up the documentation tonight.

[jdm]

For future reference, the repository is https://github.com/OODD-Mozilla/ToolRepository.