All All Contributors

All Contributors at the level of a GitHub Organisation

Introduction and project goals

Many communities that host their work on GitHub use the All Contributor specification for

"recognizing contributors to an open-source project in a way that rewards every contribution, not just code", https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/overview

There is a bot that helps a community use this specification in an automated way:

"The bot will automatically pull a user's profile, grab the contribution type emoji, update the project README and then open a Pull Request against the project ✨", https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/tooling

This bot works well, but it only works at the level of a repository, not an organisation. When an organisation has multiple repositories, there is a need to capture all contributors (and their contribution types) at the level of the organisation.

This project will provide a way to fetch all of the .all-contributorsrc files from each repo contained with an organisation. Once fetched, it will combine them together and summarise each contributor and all of their unique contributions.

Usage

Inputs

Input Name	Input Description	Required?
organisation	The name of the GitHub organisation to collect all-contributors from	YES
target_repo	The name of the repository within the GitHub organisation where the merged all-contributors file will live	YES
github_token	A GitHub token with permissions to write to the contents of the target repo and open pull requests. Defaults to: GITHUB_TOKEN.	no
target_filepath	Path to a plain text file containing a list of repos within the organisation to exclude from the merge. Defaults to: .repoignore.	no
base_branch	The name of the branch on the target repo to open pull requests against. Defaults to: main.	no
head_branch	A prefix to prepend to head branches when opening pull requests. Defaults to: merge-all-contributors.	no

Permissions

This Action will need permission to read the contents of a files stored in repositories in an organisation, create a new branch, commit to that branch, and open a Pull Request. The default permissive settings of GITHUB_TOKEN should provide the relevant permissions.

If instead your repository is using the default restricted settings of GITHUB_TOKEN, you could grant just enough permissions to the Action using a permissions config, such as the one below:

permissions:
  contents: write
  pull-requests: write

Contributors ✨

This project started at the 2025 SSI Collaboration Workshop Hack Day.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Jim Madge 💻 🤔 ⚠️ 🚇

Niko Sirmpilatze 🤔 💻

Thomas Zwagerman 🤔 💻 📖

Rachael Stickland 🤔 💻 📖

Sarah Gibson 🤔 💻 🚇 ⚠️

Akram Karoune 🤔 💻

Sahil Raja 🤔 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!