[BUG] contributors.md not updating?

[fkiraly]

Update: there's a "hard" and an "easy" (good first issue) problem here.

easy = running the cmdline tool locally and making a PR with the generated contributors.md

hard = automating this in the CI (e.g., release script)

(and we close it only once we have automation done)

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It seems the contributors.md has not updated since 0.9.0 - are we doing sth wrong with the release?

Did we accidentally drop sth from the release script when we moved to GHA that re-generated the contributors.md?

FYI @lmmentel, @freddyaboulton

[lmmentel]

Good catch, do you know how were they updated in the past? I've checked the history and those updates are a part of release PR but it's hard to say if this was a manual or automated edit.

[fkiraly]

Good catch, do you know how were they updated in the past? I've checked the history and those updates are a part of release PR but it's hard to say if this was a manual or automated edit.

I suspect, one of these:
https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/tooling

@mloning might know more.

[mloning]

Think it's still manual. I tried installing the bot a few times but couldn't get it to work.

[fkiraly]

Docs are still here:
https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/cli/installation

Think it's still manual.

Do you mean manual, as there is something you can locally and commit - or, manual as in having to translate the all-contributors line by line??

[mloning]

Do you mean manual, as there is something you can locally and commit - or, manual as in having to translate the all-contributors line by line??

Using their command line client (the link you posted)

[fkiraly]

hm, looks straighforward enough - so someone should be able to do that locally and simply make a PR with the updated file, until we figure out how to automate it.

[achieveordie]

I think the most direct solution will be to have a GitHub bot perform this operation whenever it notices a change in .all_contributorsrc. There's already a bot that they provide but even that requires a cue to perform a PR so we might as well create one for added flexibility.