How to encourage new contributos to rise up to review

[niccokunzmann]

When developing icalendar, I have a look at who returns to open more PRs.
Generally, I would like people to be happy to contribute again and also in different ways, so that they can merge PRs, because they understand what it required.

I compiled a list of contributors with gh-community. You can find it at the bottom.

Obviously, the task cannot be automated and should not be fully automated because it is about human connection. Having some data helps to know what to focus on.

Analysis: Merged PRs

handle	commits	prs	issues opened	issues commented on	PRs commented on	PRs reviewed	last activity
niccokunzmann	1898	245/269	217	328	457	377	today
stevepiercy	857	118/122	89	165	419	377	today
SashankBhamidi	312	42/42	33	37	112	115	1 day ago
dependabot[bot]	15	15/16	0	0	0	0	14 days ago
SemTiOne	40	9/12	3	8	10	9	6 days ago
Priyanshu-pulak	14	4/7	1	3	2	0	28 days ago
Solaris-star	4	4/7	0	5	1	4	12 days ago
tobixen	13	4/7	11	17	9	2	today
Morningstar202604	4	3/4	1	1	0	0	18 days ago
angatha	31	2/2	8	19	107	112	2 days ago
bohuis686-creator	2	2/3	0	2	0	0	today
burakeyler	2	2/9	0	1	0	0	12 days ago
josemmiranda04	3	2/3	0	2	1	3	18 days ago
kudala-bharani	4	2/2	0	0	0	0	14 days ago

Showing 14 of 745 contributors.

For reproducing it:

gh-community config token set ...
gh-community config repo add collective/icalendar
gh-community contributors all icalendar
gh-community result collective-icalendar-2026-10-13-12-23-24 'days<30 and merged > 1'

We have a few new names here: Priyanshu-pulak, Solaris-star, Morningstar202604, bohuis686-creator, burakeyler, josemmiranda04, kudala-bharani

They all created more than 1 merged PRs.

What we can see is that without giving a nudge, they would not think of reviewing.

Analysis Comments/reviews

gh-community result collective-icalendar-2026-10-13-12-23-24 'days<30 and pr_commented >= 1 and pr_commented < 100 and not bot'

handle	commits	prs	issues opened	issues commented on	PRs commented on	PRs reviewed	last activity
SemTiOne	40	9/12	3	8	10	9	6 days ago
Priyanshu-pulak	14	4/7	1	3	2	0	28 days ago
Solaris-star	4	4/7	0	5	1	4	12 days ago
tobixen	13	4/7	11	17	9	2	today
josemmiranda04	3	2/3	0	2	1	3	18 days ago
iveteamorim	1	1/1	0	1	1	0	9 days ago
kksingh000	0	1/2	0	1	1	0	7 days ago
zlZayn	1	1/1	0	1	1	0	4 days ago
baptx	0	0/0	1	1	2	0	9 days ago
chaitanya-y20	0	0/1	0	0	1	0	12 days ago
DhyeyBuch	0	0/1	0	0	1	0	3 days ago
HappyLeslieAlexander	0	0/2	0	0	1	0	1 day ago
jmes2build	0	0/0	0	1	1	0	10 days ago
Mmc1xs	0	0/0	0	1	1	0	28 days ago
wized2	0	0/3	0	0	1	0	25 days ago

Showing 13 of 745 contributors.

The review feature is used after on-boarding.
It also looks like that onboarding correlates with issue reviews/comments - which is good. That means, we are on track.

Analysis: potential new reviewers

gh-community result collective-icalendar-2026-10-13-12-23-24 'days_last<60 and not user_bot and prs_total > 3 and commits_total < 300 and prs_reviewed < 1' --sort days_last

handle	commits	merged PRs	issues opened	issues commented on	PRs commented on	PRs reviewed	last activity
HarshRajSinghania	0	0/5	0	0	0	0	5 days ago
sandeep780049	1	1/5	1	3	0	0	6 days ago
burakeyler	2	2/9	0	1	0	0	12 days ago
Morningstar202604	4	3/4	1	1	0	0	18 days ago
Priyanshu-pulak	14	4/7	1	3	2	0	29 days ago
uwezkhan	45	7/10	1	1	0	0	32 days ago
klouds27	12	3/4	0	0	0	0	55 days ago

Showing 7 of 745 contributors.

The contributors listed above seem potential candidates. I will need to think a bit more about how to find some.

Summary

We have a lot of open PRs. It is good to get them merged, re-engage and then have a look again who is contributing.
What are you looking for when you try to find contributors who can potentially stay around a bit longer?