GitHub Contributor

[Jayantadeb73]

Hi All,

It will be nice if any one can explain with real life senario, when we should add an github user as a ‘Contributor’ other than ‘Collaborator’ ?

[Gisgar3]

In a real-life situation, it is best suited that you would make a person a  Contributor if they are a valuable asset to the code-base and are dedicated to the project at hand. Normal  Collaborators are usually people that make small changes and are not highly necessary for overall code peformance.

[lee-dohm]

Interesting question!

Let’s start with some definitions:

• A “contributor” is someone who has, at any time in the past, had code merged into your repository
• A “collaborator” is someone who has been granted more than default access to your repository

GitHub will add a badge to the comments of anyone who is a contributor to your repository automatically, see this issue in atom/atom for example:

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You don’t have to do anything for that to happen, other than merge their code. A collaborator is a more manual process because you’re trusting them on an ongoing basis by granting them write access to your repository.

I hope that helps and let us know if you have more questions.

[Jayantadeb73]

Hi Gisgar,

Thanks for your explanation.

[Jayantadeb73]

Hi lee-dohm,

Nice to see your great explanation.