Crediting people/institutions not in github

[ccamara]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to credit an organisation for providing some open data in which my project is based, but that organisation does not have a github user (although in my particular case, it does have a github group -but that may not be as common).

I attempted to do so here: https://github.com/ccamara/osm_imports_preparations/issues/4, but unfortunately, when using the bot, I got the following answer:

I couldn't determine any contributions to add, did you specify any contributions? Please make sure to use valid contribution names.

Describe the solution you'd like Add contributors that do not have a github account in a similar way:

If they are a github group:

• Display group's name, link and avatar, as a regular user

If they do not have a github account, it would be nice to pass name, email, url and avatar as parameters. Avatar may be obtained from gravatar too.

[KelSolaar]

I have similar needs for a bunch of people that do not necessarily have a Github account.

[Berkmann18]

Hi @ccamara, apologies for the delayed response. @KelSolaar Have you tried adding the organisation to the list in .all-contributorsrc?

I like your suggestion, PRs are welcome :grin:.

[ccamara]

Thanks for considering, I wish I could contribute with a PR, but do not know where to start :(

[Berkmann18]

You create a PR for the CLI first https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors-cli then progress onto the documentation on this repo and the bot.

@ccamara Did this help?

[NatalieZelenka]

I'd like to second this as a useful feature!

[hanisirfan]

This is a really great idea!