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Summary

Closes #894.

/dev/null is built in the open, and the About page already lists everyone with a commit in this repository. Nothing on their own profile showed it, although every other kind of participation has an achievement badge. This adds a contributor badge: anyone among the repository's contributors, as the About page lists them, unlocks it and earns a flat 25 XP, like shell shocked earns 100 XP.

This is an alternative to #741, which adds a similar badge. The differences:

Changes

  • Achievement::Contributor: the label, description, git-pull-request icon, and a target of 1.
  • ContributorsQuery::includes(User $user) checks whether the user's GitHub account is in the cached contributor list. It matches by account ID, not handle, since a handle can change on either side, and it reuses the existing one-hour cache, so profiles add no GitHub requests of their own.
  • ContributorsQuery now keeps every successful list for a week as a fallback. When GitHub doesn't answer, that list is used for a minute before GitHub is asked again, so an outage no longer locks contributors' badges or empties the About page. The list is empty only when GitHub has not answered for a week.
  • Once that fallback exists, no request waits for GitHub. An expired list is served right away and cached for another minute, so concurrent requests don't ask GitHub too. The refresh then runs through defer() after the response, or after the job or command in queue and console contexts. GitHub is asked while a request waits only when there is no list at all. The fetch moved, unchanged, into refresh().
  • UserAchievementsQuery adds the badge and its 25 XP in the same way as shell shocked, including a contributor entry in the XP breakdown, mirrored in the XpBreakdown type.
  • The badge popover and dialog get the new icon, and the dialog's XP footnote mentions +25/contributor.
  • KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md now lists 16 badges, has a row for the new badge, and describes the About page's outage behaviour.
  • Tests that strictly mock GitHubProvider and render a profile now expect contributors().

New contributors can wait a few hours for the badge, since GitHub itself can take that long to count a contribution and the list is cached for an hour.

Validation

Local, on macOS with PHP 8.5, PostgreSQL 18 with pgvector, and bun 1.4.3:

  • vendor/bin/pint --parallel --test: pass
  • vendor/bin/rector --dry-run: pass
  • vendor/bin/phpstan: pass
  • pest --type-coverage --min=100: 100%
  • pest --parallel --ci --coverage --exactly=100.0: 5058 passed, coverage 100.0%. This run came before a final Rector-only change in ContributorsQueryTest (app() → resolve()). After that change, the test file passed 16/16, and rector, pint and phpstan passed again.
  • bun run test:lint: pass, with warnings only in existing test files
  • bun run test:types: pass
  • bun run test:unit: 212 passed

Hosted CI has not run yet.

Visual evidence

These screenshots come from a local build. Locally the app uses the null GitHub provider, so a test account, @demo-contributor, was added to the contributor list by hand. Screenshots 1 and 2 are from a manual desktop session; the others are from browser viewport emulation.

Badge popover with tooltip, light Profile rank block, light
The contributor badge in the badge popover, with its tooltip The profile rank block with 25 XP and the contributor badge
Profile at 1440×900, light Profile at 1440×900, dark
Profile with the contributor badge, light theme Profile with the contributor badge, dark theme
Dialog, badge unlocked, dark Dialog, badge locked, light
Achievements dialog with the contributor badge unlocked, dark theme Achievements dialog with the contributor badge locked at 0/1, light theme
Profile at 390×844, light
Profile with the contributor badge at a phone viewport

The new tile matches the existing badges: the same chip, icon size and mono label, with no clipping or overflow at either width. With 16 badges, the dialog grid now fills evenly. Layout shift on load, measured with a buffered PerformanceObserver, was 0 at 1440×900 and at 390×844.

Device verification

No mobile interaction changed: the badge uses the existing popover, tooltip and dialog. The phone layout was checked only with Chromium viewport emulation at 390×844, not on hardware or a simulator.

Independent review

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  • Base: 79168224a96ea21a383ba3261078bb11f8cf5108
  • Head: 41b445b6c8dd443a6c3ea88e826be77a6ac86114
  • Screenshots: cbda5292
  • Verdict: CODE: PASS, VISUAL: PASS, with no blocking findings.

Earlier rounds led to more accurate knowledge base wording on timing and outages. The final round reviewed the change made for CodeRabbit's note about requests waiting for GitHub. For the deferred refresh, the reviewer checked how it behaves in HTTP, queue and artisan contexts, the backoff and TTLs, and that exceptions other than HTTP client errors are reported rather than thrown.

Non-blocking notes:

  • No test combines a failure partway through pagination with an existing fallback list. It runs through the same, already covered branch.
  • A deferred refresh is skipped when the response is an error (status 400 or higher) or the queued job fails. The fallback is then still cached for a minute, and the next request schedules the refresh again.
  • Under Octane, a deferred refresh holds its worker after the response while it waits for GitHub. That is no longer than the request used to wait.

Limits of the review:

  • The reviewer reran targeted tests, phpstan, pint and rector, but not the full coverage run or the bun checks.
  • The deferred path was not exercised live in a running server, queue worker or Octane.
  • The reviewer judged the screenshots, not a live device.

Limitations

  • There is no capture from the base branch. The locked state stands in for "before", since the base has 15 badges and no contributor tile.
  • Not captured: the popover in dark mode, mobile in dark mode, the mobile tap states, and the "+N more" overflow row.
  • Locally the app uses the null GitHub provider, so the real contributors endpoint was exercised only through the existing HttpGitHubProvider tests.
  • If the cached list expires or recovers between the two badge reads in CommitController::store, an unrelated commit could show an unlock toast. The fallback list makes this much less likely.
  • The deferred refresh was verified through tests, not in a production-like server, queue worker or Octane setup.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a Contributor badge worth 25 XP for qualifying GitHub contributors. The award is granted once and is based on GitHub account identity; bots and AI agents are excluded.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Contributor status can continue to display using GitHub’s last available contributor list during an outage. The list is retained for up to one week; without one, GitHub is reported as unreachable.
  • Documentation
    • Updated achievement details and the About page to explain badge eligibility, award timing, and how contributor information is handled.

Anyone among the contributors of the repository, as GitHub lists them
on the About page, earns the contributor badge and 25 XP. They are
matched by their GitHub account, and the badge reads the contributor
list that is already cached for an hour, so profiles add no GitHub
calls of their own.
When GitHub doesn't answer, the contributor list falls back to the last
one it gave in the past week for a minute, instead of being empty. So
an outage no longer costs contributors their badge and its XP, and the
About page keeps showing the list.
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Walkthrough

The application adds a contributor badge and a one-time 25 XP award based on GitHub contributor data. It retains the last successful contributor list for up to one week during GitHub outages. Achievement displays, tests, and documentation now include contributor status.

Changes: Contributor achievement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contributor lookup and fallback
app/Queries/ContributorsQuery.php, tests/Unit/Queries/ContributorsQueryTest.php
ContributorsQuery matches users by GitHub account ID. It retains the last successful contributor list for up to one week and uses that list temporarily when GitHub does not respond. Tests cover deferred refresh, stale-list retention, and lookup behavior.
Contributor badge and XP
app/Enums/Achievement.php, app/Queries/UserAchievementsQuery.php, tests/Unit/Queries/UserAchievementsQueryTest.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/SessionControllerTest.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/UserControllerTest.php
Achievement results add contributor badge progress and a 25 XP contribution. Tests cover contributor eligibility, and controller tests configure the contributor lookup calls.
Achievement display and documentation
resources/js/types/achievement.ts, resources/js/components/achievements-*, KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
The achievement display maps the contributor icon and lists its XP award. The documentation describes the badge, award, and contributor-list fallback.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UserAchievementsQuery
  participant ContributorsQuery
  participant GitHubProvider
  UserAchievementsQuery->>ContributorsQuery: includes(user)
  ContributorsQuery->>GitHubProvider: fetch contributors
  GitHubProvider-->>ContributorsQuery: contributor accounts
  ContributorsQuery-->>UserAchievementsQuery: contributor status
  UserAchievementsQuery->>UserAchievementsQuery: calculate badge progress and XP
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Possibly related issues

  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#442: The issue requests a badge for open-source contributors; this change adds a badge for accounts listed as contributors to this repository.

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: camilleislasse, nunomaduro

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 41b44

The contributor badge and XP changes are mergeable after normal checks. A retained contributor list is served without waiting for GitHub; first-time lookups without a retained list can still wait for GitHub, as documented.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 41b44

The badge changes calculated recognition rather than permissions. Ordinary GitHub outages have bounded fallback behavior. The main design impact is extending a shared external lookup into profile and posting flows; concurrent refresh and deployment behavior remain partly unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The new dependency is reachable through public web-profile achievement evaluation, authenticated API-profile responses, and badge evaluation before and after web commit creation. All use the same repository-scoped contributor cache rather than a cache selected separately by each profile visitor.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — External contributor records are filtered for user type, nonempty login, integer ID and contribution count, and configured agent exclusions before entering the shared cache. The inspected consumers use membership for achievement output and notification, not as a permission check or credential grant.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Refreshes have no lock or version check, and retained and current snapshots are written separately. Overlapping workers or interruption between writes can therefore expose differing snapshots. In the inspected design, this affects displayed membership and calculated XP rather than cumulative awards or authority. The retained key expires after seven days, although a short-lived current-cache copy can briefly outlive that expiry.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a contributor achievement badge.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #894 requests a contributor badge for users who contributed to the repository. The PR adds Achievement::Contributor, checks the existing repository contributor list by GitHub account ID throug…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain connected to #894. Cache fallback and deferred refresh support reliable contributor detection. Provider mock updates, automated tests, type changes, UI changes, and knowledge base u…
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Explanation

Issue #894 requests a contributor badge for users who contributed to the repository. The PR adds Achievement::Contributor, checks the existing repository contributor list by GitHub account ID through ContributorsQuery, awards 25 XP, updates the achievement UI and XP breakdown, and adds automated tests for eligibility and cache behavior. The contributor-list rule is a concrete implementation of the issue request.

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Explanation

The changes remain connected to #894. Cache fallback and deferred refresh support reliable contributor detection. Provider mock updates, automated tests, type changes, UI changes, and knowledge base updates support the badge implementation. No unrelated product change is established by the reviewed change summary.

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  • resources/js/components/achievements-shelf.tsx
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Comment thread app/Queries/ContributorsQuery.php Resolved
Once there is a list from the past week, an expired one is served right
away and cached for another minute, and GitHub is asked after the
response. So no profile or About page request waits for GitHub, neither
for the hourly refresh nor during an outage. GitHub is only asked while
the request waits when there is no list at all.
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