The first contributions workflow should be revamped
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Description
What would you like to be added:
Currently, the first contributions workflow is only written with help of github scripts. It only checks for the PRs and doesn't take into account when someone messages or creates the issue.
In most of the other popular repositories, a popular action already exists on marketplace which takes all this into account.
Link -> https://github.com/marketplace/actions/first-interaction
Why is this needed:
To improve the first time experience of a new contributor.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Inspect the repository's current first contributions workflow and GitHub scripts, then compare their PR-only behavior with the linked First Interaction marketplace action. The work is done when the workflow also handles a contributor's first message or issue, not only a first pull request, and the workflow still functions as intended.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100