[RFC] Webapp to add/manage contributor table

[jakebolam]

Motivation

The cli/bot have come a long way to helping manage the table, sometimes the need to remove/re-arrange/modify the configuration of the table would be helpful.

When there is no issue/PR the ability to add a contributor would be great (see feature request all-contributors/app#149)

Recommendation

Adding this ticket as a place to start discussing ideas.

[Berkmann18]

I'm definitely up for it.
I think @gr2m's suggestion is a good way to go, i.e.: OAuth based web app that basically simulates the add process of the bot/CLI.

[gr2m]

I’d love to see that, too. I want to make this simple with Probot so this would be a great guinea pig project. I think (custom) UIs with a login button that use an app’s client id/secret is something we could start with. Who ever would like to work on this, I’d love to find out how what the developer experience would look like in an ideal world. We can make up APIs for probot and then make it work backwards :)

[MM-coder]

I'd be willing to work on something like this utilising Python (Flask or Quart)

[Berkmann18]

@gr2m With the current app, do you think it's something it can tackle or would that be a separate app within the software system?

[RCheesley]

This may also help projects to get set up initially by having an easy way to add contributors in bulk? I would be happy to help with testing this, we just implemented the bot in https://github.com/mautic/mautic but it is quite labour intensive to make a PR for every past contributor and I already made an error trying to fix something manually 😅

[Berkmann18]

@RCheesley For adding contributors in bulk, that would be something that can be achieved with the fetch feature of the CLI (which I haven't had the time to finish) but the web app could definitely help with that.

[RCheesley]

Awesome - we have a lot of people to add so definitely happy to help with that. Would love to have a GitHub Action that adds all the contributors that are listed in the release notes for example, in one PR, that can be made during the release process.

That would take out a huge bulk of the work!

[Berkmann18]

@RCheesley Awesome, feel free to checkout all-contributors/cli#196.