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Motivation

Quantify contributions from outside the LocalStack organization to understand community impact on the project.

Changes

Added scripts/analyze_contributors.py to analyze git history and identify external contributors:

  • Contributor classification: Identifies LocalStack org members by:
    • Email domains (@localstack.cloud, @atlassian.com)
    • Known bot accounts
    • GitHub usernames extracted from CODEOWNERS file (22 members)
    • Optional: Current org members fetched from GitHub API (https://github.com/orgs/localstack/people)
  • GitHub username extraction: Parses noreply emails to extract usernames and match against org member lists
  • Statistics generation: Counts total/external contributors and commits with percentage breakdowns
  • Output modes: Summary view for quick stats, verbose mode for top 50 contributors with commit counts
  • Type-safe implementation: Uses proper type hints (Dict[str, Any]) and validates malformed git log entries
  • Performance optimizations: Lowercase set for O(1) username lookups, null-byte delimiter to avoid parsing conflicts

Usage:

# With GitHub API (most accurate - requires GH_TOKEN)
export GH_TOKEN="your_token"
python scripts/analyze_contributors.py

# Without GitHub API (using static CODEOWNERS list)
python scripts/analyze_contributors.py --no-github-api

# Detailed contributor list
python scripts/analyze_contributors.py --verbose

Current findings (using CODEOWNERS list):

  • 28 internal contributors from LocalStack organization (4.2% of total)
  • 2,854 internal commits (37.5% of total)
  • 639 external contributors (95.8% of total)
  • 4,750 external commits (62.5% of total)

Documentation in scripts/CONTRIBUTOR_ANALYSIS.md covers methodology, accuracy considerations, and GitHub API usage.

Tests

Script tested against full repository history. Verified contributor counts, GitHub username extraction logic, and both with/without GitHub API modes.

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gtsiolis commented Dec 8, 2025

Didn't expect this to land as a PR automatically. 👀

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gtsiolis commented Dec 8, 2025

@copilot i know some organization team members don't use their localstack.cloud email when they add or push commits. can you filter by the people you can find in https://github.com/orgs/localstack/people ?

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@copilot i know some organization team members don't use their localstack.cloud email when they add or push commits. can you filter by the people you can find in https://github.com/orgs/localstack/peo...

Enhanced the script to filter contributors by GitHub organization membership. The script now:

  1. Extracts org members from CODEOWNERS - Added 22 GitHub usernames from the CODEOWNERS file as known organization members
  2. Supports GitHub API - Added --no-github-api flag; when omitted (default), the script attempts to fetch current members from https://github.com/orgs/localstack/people using gh CLI (requires GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN env variable)
  3. Extracts GitHub usernames from emails - Parses GitHub noreply emails (e.g., 12345+username@users.noreply.github.com) to match against org member lists

Updated results:

  • Internal contributors: 28 (up from 17)
  • Internal commits: 2,854 (up from 1,463) - 37.5%
  • External contributors: 639 (down from 650)
  • External commits: 4,749 (down from 6,140) - 62.5%

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  • https://api.github.com/orgs/localstack/members
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