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# Counting contributions
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The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays commit counts for
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contributors to Zulip projects. We display these statistics prominently because
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they are easy to compute, and can be fun and motivating for some of our
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contributors.
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We do not consider commit count to be a good way to measure someone's
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contributions to a software project. Many invaluable contributions may not
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result in the contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback,
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translations, bug reports, helping new contributors, and other types of
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participation in our [development community][dev-community]. These non-code
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contributions are essential to making the Zulip project successful.
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Thus, Zulip's policy is to always express appreciation for non-code
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contributions to the project whenever we discuss code contribution
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statistics, especially in our highest-visibility contexts like release
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blog posts.
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## How the contribution stats are calculated
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The data for all contributors to the Zulip project is aggregated by
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querying [GitHub's API endpoint for listing a repository's
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contributors][github-list-contrib-endpoint]. The numbers Zulip gets
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from this endpoint differs slightly from the data GitHub displays in a
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repository's [contributors page][github-contrib-page]. This
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discrepancy is due to the following reasons:
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- A repository's contributors page excludes commits with author email
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addresses that do not have an associated GitHub account. However,
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the GitHub API counts such emails in its contributor stats.
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- A repository's contributors page does not count commits authored by
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email addresses that have been deleted from a GitHub profile by the
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user. However, the GitHub API treats these stale emails as
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contributors as well.
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- Some commits have multiple authors when that is declared via
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[Co-Authored-By][co-authored-by] in a commit message.
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## Old email addresses
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If you remove an email address from your GitHub profile, the commits
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you contributed with that email as the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL` will
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disappear from your GitHub profile. If you made contributions to Zulip
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with an author email address that is no longer associated with your
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GitHub profile, here are some important points to keep in mind:
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- Zulip's team page will still display your contributions. These
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contributions will be grouped under the email that was used for the
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commits, but will not link to your GitHub profile.
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- If you still have access to the email used for the contributions, you
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can link the contributions to your GitHub profile by
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[adding the email to your GitHub account][github-add-email].
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- If you do not have access to the email in question, you can ask for
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help on chat.zulip.org, or submit a pull request editing the
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`.mailmap` file at the root of the repository where your
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contributed.
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The comments at the top of our `.mailmap` files document how to map
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your old email address to one currently associated with your GitHub
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account.
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## Relevant source code
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To dig deeper into how the contributor stats are calculated, please check
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out the following files in the [Zulip server repository][server-repo]:
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- `tools/fetch-contributor-data` - The script that fetches contributor
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data from GitHub's API.
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- `static/js/portico/team.js` - The JavaScript code that processes and
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renders the data received from GitHub.
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[github-list-contrib-endpoint]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#list-repository-contributors
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[github-contrib-page]: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/viewing-activity-and-data-for-your-repository/viewing-a-projects-contributors
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[dev-community]: https://zulip.com/development-community/
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[server-repo]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip
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[github-add-email]: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-email-preferences/adding-an-email-address-to-your-github-account
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[co-authored-by]: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-and-editing-commits/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors
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