Add GitHub Action to Welcome First-Time Contributors

[shivasankaran18]

Increasing Access

We can improve our onboarding experience for new contributors by automatically welcoming first-time issue reporters and pull request creators with a friendly message.

Most appropriate sub-area of p5.js?

Home

Feature request details

When a user opens their first issue or first pull request, the GitHub Action should detect that it’s their first contribution to the repo and post a welcome comment. This message can direct them to:

• Contribution guidelines
• Community support channels

We can use the GitHub GraphQL API to determine whether it’s a user's first-ever issue or PR

[shivasankaran18]

@ksen0 can I work on this issue.. ?

[ksen0]

Hi @shivasankaran18 ! Thanks for spotting that p5.js-website doesn't have the welcome bot set up yet! The p5.js repo already uses the welcome bot (set up here: https://github.com/processing/p5.js/blob/main/.github/config.yml) so if you'd like, you're welcome to:

1. create a PR in p5.js to update https://github.com/processing/p5.js/blob/main/.github/config.yml to include links to contribution guidelines and community support channels
2. Once that's in, would be really helpful if you created the matching PR for p5.js dev-2.0 branch, not just main - since 1.x and 2.x are currently diverged (you can use git cherrypick)
3. and/or: create a PR in p5.js-website to create a similar .github/config.yml to implement a similar welcome message here

Does that sound good, would you like to work on that?

[shivasankaran18]

Ok @ksen0 .. I shall work on it