Welcome! 👋🏼

Happy Commits curates social impact and civic tech open source projects that are looking for contributors and lists issues on thost projects that are tagged with Help Wanted or Good First Issue.

Open-source maintainers are always looking to get more people involved, but it can be challenging to become a contributor. Happy Commits lowers the barrier for future contributions to social and civic good projects - and this is why it exists.

Adding a new project

You're welcome to add a new project in First Issue, just follow these steps:

• To maintain the quality of projects in First Issue, please make sure the GitHub repository you want to add meets the following criteria:

  • It has at least three issues with the good first issue label or other labels defined in happycommits.json (see labels and the end).

  • It has at least 10 contributors.

  • It has at least 1000 stars.

  • It contains a README.md with detailed setup instructions for the project, and a CONTRIBUTING.md with guidelines for new contributors.

  • It is actively maintained (last update less than 1 month ago).

• Add your repository's path (in the format owner/name and lexicographic order) to happycommits.json.

• Create a new pull-request. Please add the link to the issues page of the repository in the PR description. Once the pull request is merged, the changes will be live on the site.

How does it work?

First Issue is a static website that uses Next.js, React and Typescript. The data shown on the website is loaded from the generated.json file, which is generated by generate.ts by querying the GitHub API to fetch issues from the repositories listed in happycommits.json. The labels defined in happycommits.json are used to filter issues for the repositories.

To contribute new features and changes to the website, you would want to run the app locally. Please follow these steps:

How to setup the project locally

1. Fork the repository, clone it locally, create a new branch to work on a specific feature or bug fix without affecting the main branch of the repository. Make sure you have a recent version of Node.js installed on your computer.
2. You can use the included generated.json as dummy data or you can run npm run prebuild to fetch the latest data from GitHub yourself: for this, you will need to set the GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable to a valid GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT). Notice: repositories not matching the criteria listed above (see rules in generated.json) are automatically removed from happycommits.json when the generated.json script runs.
3. Start the development server and open the app in your browser.

# install the dependencies
$ npm install
# start the development server
$ npm run dev

Good to know when you commit: the project contains a pre-commit hook that runs linters automatically to ensure code quality!

Credits

This project is based on good-first-issue and first-issue.