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Pascal Dennerly
Pascal Dennerly

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Rewarding Github contributions

So I'll probably be cross posting on Twitter or something but here goes...

How do you reward people that take the time to contribute?

I recently had someone fix a bug in httpref. No prompting, just a PR out of the blue that nailed the problem. I was shocked, and surprised, and so so glad that someone had taken the time.

Apart from a cursory 'thanks' when I hit merge and an impromptu shout out on Twitter I couldn't really do anything.

Is this something that anyone has been able to do? Just show someone how much you appreciate what they've done?

Discuss...

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Binyamin Green

I think the level of the "thanks" can vary greatly. Maybe point out something about the code, showing that you actually noticed their work.

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Fulton Browne

Maybe add a 'hall of fame' on your Readme use it to recognize the most important prs/users. I personally just thought that out of nowhere, but now I am adding that to my readme 😊