With GitMatch we wanted to provide an easy way for maintainers to find developers to contribute in open source.
We created a matching algorithm that compares the repository's package usage, code style via jscs/jshint/etc to the developers on GitHub.
The results are then displayed in a tinder-like interface. "Liked" developers are notified via GitHub @mention in an issue to contribute to the project.
Before the matching process can begin, we check the repository if it's contribution friendly. There are a few good practices around: CONTRIBUTING.md files, issues to work on etc. If those requirements are not met, we provide information on how to fix it, or even to a commit to the repository with the files.
In the matching process, we wanted to get all gender/race/identification characteristics out, only the match scores and geo distance matter.
Once matched, we create an issue in the maintainers repo that friendly asks the developer for contribution.
npm run dev
Run in development mode
npm run start
Run in production mode
npm run test
Runs tests