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caption: "We're saying thanks to our contributors and want to make sure their contributions get the credit they deserve"
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date: '2021-11-28'
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intro: 'During our last contributor call , we decided that we would implement the All Contributors specification as a way to honour all our contributors.'
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title: 'Calling all contributors'
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---
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During [our last contributor
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call](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/issues/1514), we decided that we
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would implement the [All Contributors
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specification](https://allcontributors.org/) as a way to honour all our
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contributors.
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If on the surface, a contributor call decision to honour contributors sounds
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like some sort of self-serving nonsense, let me reassure you that there's no
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risk of dislocated shoulders from patting ourselves on the back. Instead it's
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about (also) honouring those contributions that tend to go overlooked in Open
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Source.
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The All Contributors website summerazes it as:
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> This is a specification for recognizing contributors to an open source
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> project in a way that rewards each and every contribution, not just code.
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>
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> People are giving themselves and their free time to contribute to open source
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> projects in so many ways, so we believe everyone should be praised for their
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> contributions (code or not).
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When we talk about _contributors_ in open source projects, there is often the
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assumption that this is all the people who contribute code to the project. The
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fact the [GitHub lists the contributors of a project based on the actual
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commits](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/graphs/contributors) goes a
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long way to cement that view.
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But there's plenty of contributions that fly under the radar of an automated
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system based on the commit history. Things like documentation and blog posts,
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community building, answering questions or submitting bug reports, are all
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valuable contributions that deserve to be recognized.
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By implementing the All Contributors specification, we pledge to give those
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people credit for their contributions, and make that credit visible. In
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practice the list of contributors will be included in the `README.md` file of
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all our packages, as well as in the main `README.md` file of [our
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`freesewing/freesewing` monorepo](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing).
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In the future, we also plan to make this list available on our website.
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## How does it work?
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Going forward, we will make an effort to add all contributors regardless of how
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they contribute to the project. But we'd also like to capture contributions
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that were made up until now.
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For this, we need your help. If you've contributed to FreeSewing, let us know.
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You can [let us know on Discord](https://discord.freesewing.org/), or you can
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[create an
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issue](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/issues/new?assignees=joostdecock&labels=%F0%9F%92%9C+all+contributors&template=all-contributors.md&title=All+Contributors%3A+Please+add+%28username+here%29),
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or you can comment on [any
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issue](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/issues) or [pull
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request](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/pulls) using [the
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instructions for the all-contributors
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bot](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/bot/usage).
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Don't be shy, add yourself :)
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