metrics/source/plugins/contributors/README.md

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🏅 Repository contributors
This plugin display repositories contributors from a commit range along with additional stats.
⚠️ Disclaimer	This plugin is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with GitHub. All product and company names are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders.
Supported features → Full specification	📘 Repository template
	📓 Repositories
	🔑 (scopeless) read:org (optional) read:user (optional) read:packages (optional) repo (optional)
By contribution types By number of contributions

➡️ Available options

Option	Description
plugin_contributors	Enable contributors plugin
type: boolean default: no
plugin_contributors_base	Base reference Can be a commit, tag, branch, etc.
type: string
plugin_contributors_head	Head reference Can be a commit, tag, branch, etc.
type: string default: master
plugin_contributors_ignored	Ignored users Can be used to ignore bots activity
⏩ Inherits users_ignored type: array (comma-separated)
plugin_contributors_contributions	Contributions count
type: boolean default: no
plugin_contributors_sections	Displayed sections contributors: all contributors categories: contributors sorted by contributions categories (must be configured with plugin_contributors_categories)
type: array (comma-separated) default: contributors allowed values: contributors categories
plugin_contributors_categories	Contribution categories This option requires plugin_contributors_sections to have categories in it to be effective. Pass a JSON object mapping category with fileglobs
🌐 Web instances must configure settings.json: metrics.run.tempdir metrics.run.git type: json default: → Click to expand { "📚 Documentation": ["README.md", "docs/**"], "💻 Code": ["source/**", "src/**"], "#️⃣ Others": ["*"] }

🗂️ Setting up contribution categories

Pass a JSON object to plugin_contributors_categories with categories names as keys and arrays of fileglobs as values to configure contributions categories.

Each modified file by a contributor matching a fileglob will add them in said category.

💡 File matching respect keys order

💡 Use | YAML multiline operator for better readability

*Example: *

- uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
  with:
    plugin_contributors: yes
    plugin_contributors_categories: |
      {
        "📚 Documentation": ["README.md", "docs/**"],
        "💻 Code": ["source/**", "src/**"],
        "#️⃣ Others": ["*"]
      }

ℹ️ Examples workflows

name: Contributors with contributions count
uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
with:
  filename: metrics.plugin.contributors.contributions.svg
  token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
  base: ""
  template: repository
  repo: metrics
  plugin_contributors: yes
  plugin_contributors_contributions: yes

name: Contributors by categories
uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
with:
  filename: metrics.plugin.contributors.categories.svg
  token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
  base: ""
  template: repository
  repo: metrics
  plugin_contributors: yes
  plugin_contributors_sections: categories
  plugin_contributors_categories: |
    {
      "🧩 Plugins / 🖼️ templates":["source/plugins/**", "source/templates/**"],
      "📚 Documentation":["README.md", "**/README.md", "**/metadata.yml"],
      "💻 Code (other)":["source/**", "Dockerfile"]
    }