Achievements

Achievements are a way for developers or organizations to incentivize other developers to make contributions to their repositories. By using a Vaunt achievements config you can enable a set of achievements for contributors to your repository. Developers can showcase their own achievements or a repository can showcase the achievements earned by contributors.

Example

This example shows some of the standard achievement definitions. You can place this file in your repository under ./vaunt/config.yaml with updated image urls for the icons to enable Achievements for you repository.

version: 0.0.1
achievements:
  - achievement:
      name: Shooting Star
      icon: <image_url>
      description: Awarded for starring our repository, make a wish!
      triggers:
        - trigger:
            actor: author
            action: star
            condition: starred = true
  - achievement:
      name: Every Bit Counts
      icon: <image_url>
      description: No commit is too small!
      triggers:
        - trigger:
            actor: author
            action: commit
            condition: count() >= 1
  - achievement:
      name: Pull Request Hero
      icon: <image_url>
      description: You're a PR hero, rock on!
      triggers:
        - trigger:
            actor: author
            action: pull_request
            condition: merged = true
  - achievement:
      name: Closer
      icon: <image_url>
      description: Only closers get coffee!
      triggers:
        - trigger:
            actor: author
            action: issue
            condition: closed = true

This example uses a standard set of achievements that are free for any Vaunt users.

Check out the webhooks guide for information about setting up webhooks for your achievements.

Vaunt Config Explanation

The Achievements defined in the Vaunt config have several attributes that will be customizable for plans in the future.

Achievement Name

The name of the achievement.

Achievement Icon

The url to an icon image to use for the achievement. This can be displayed when showcasing achievements.

Achievement Description

A description of the achievement that can be shown as hovertext when showcasing.

Achievement Type

An optional field to specify the type of achievement. Achievements may be one of a number of types that use some additional information to determine how achievements should be awarded.

The current supported types are:

• ongoing (default)
• once

An achievement of type "ongoing" is one that can be earned at any time that a user qualifies for it. The conditions for this achievement will be checked periodically and awards granted to users when they meet the contribution requirements.

An achievement of type "once" is awarded only at a configured date and then is no longer earnable even if users meet the conditions after the fact. The date for this field must be provided in the metadata.date field of the achievement.

Achievement Metadata

Metadata is an optional field that provides some metadata about the achievement that may vary based on the achievement type. Currently, the only supported metadata field is "Date" which provides a date in month-day-year format on which to award an achievement of type "once".

For example:

  - achievement:
      type: once
      metadata:
          date: 01-19-2024

This achievement would be granted one time to qualified users on January 19th, 2024.

Achievement Triggers

Triggers are used to define the conditions that must be reached for a user to earn a given achievement. There are several fields to a trigger that allow you to customize the exact requirements.

Actor

The Actor controls the subject of the condition. For most actions this will be the author. However, for pull_request specifically this can also be set to reviewers or assignees and for issues this may be set to resolved_by.

Actor	Supported Actions
author	pull_request, review, commit, issue, discussion, star
resolved_by	issue
assignees	pull_request, issue
reviewers	pull_request

Action

Action defines the contribution action that this trigger uses.

Action	description
pull_request	create actions related to opening or merging pull requests
review	create actions related to reviewing pull requests
commit	create actions related to authoring commits
issue	create actions related to opening or resolving issues
issue_comment	create actions related to authoring comments on issues
pull_request_comment	create actions related to authoring comments on pull requests
discussion	create actions related to opening or answering discussions
star	create actions for starring the repository
point	special action that uses point values from action definitions

Pull Request Fields

field	type	description
merged	bool	whether the pull request has been merged
closed	bool	whether the pull request has been closed
comments	int	number of comments on the pull request
reactions	int	number of reactions on the pull request
additions	int	number of commit additions made in the pull request
deletions	int	number of commit deletions made in the pull request
changed_files	int	number of changed files in the pull request
commits	int	number of commits made in the pull request
labels	string array	list of labels assigned to the pull request
emojis	string array	list of reaction emojis on the pull request body
reactors	string array	list of users that have reacted to the pull request
created_at	date	the date the pull request was created
merged_at	date	the date the pull request was merged
closed_at	date	the date the pull request was closed
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Review Fields

field	type	description
created_at	date	the date the review was created
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Commit Fields

field	type	description
additions	int	number of commit addition
deletions	int	number of commit deletions
changed_files	int	number of changed files
created_at	date	the date the commit was created
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Issue Fields

field	type	description
closed	bool	whether the issue has been closed
comments	int	number of comments on the issue
reactions	int	number of reactions on the issue
labels	string array	list of labels assigned to the issue
emojis	string array	list of reaction emojis on the issue body
reactors	string array	list of users that have reacted to the issue
reason	string	the state reason for an issue, can be either REOPENED, COMPLETED, or NOT_PLANNED
created_at	date	the date the issue was created
closed_at	date	the date the issue was closed
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Issue Comment Fields

field	type	description
reactions	int	number of reactions on the issue
emojis	string array	list of reaction emojis on the issue comment
reactors	string array	list of users that have reacted to the comment
created_at	date	the date the issue was created
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Pull Request Comment Fields

field	type	description
reactions	int	number of reactions on the issue
emojis	string array	list of reaction emojis on the pull request comment
reactors	string array	list of users that have reacted to the comment
created_at	date	the date the issue was created
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Discussion Fields

field	type	description
closed	bool	whether the discussion has been closed
comments	int	number of comments on the discussion
upvotes	int	number of upvotes on the discussion
reactions	int	number of reactions on the discussion
created_at	date	the date the discussion was created
closed_at	date	the date the discussion was closed
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Star Fields

field	type	description
starred	bool	whether the repository was starred
created_at	date	the date the star was given
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Point fields

field	type	description
points	int	number of points the user has earned
actor	string array	list of users to include or exclude from this trigger

Conditions

The condition uses one or more of the fields from the action to create a conditional check for the achievement. The comparison should be appropriate for the type of the field such as equality for booleans or numeric comparison for integers, for example: merged = true or comments > 10.

The string array fields labels and files use a special list comparison in with a list of strings to check against. There are several options for comparing the list based on way the list is provided. The short description is that [] means any, ![] means not any, {} means all, and !{} means not all.

The easiest way to understand is by looking at some examples. The following conditions compare the labels of an issue:

• labels in ['bug', 'good first issue'] matches if the item has either of these labels
• labels in !['spam', 'duplicate'] matches if the item does NOT have any of these labels
• labels in {'bug', good first issue'] matches if the item has ALL of these labels
• labels in !{'bug', 'good first issue'} matches if the item has does NOT have ALL of these labels (would still match on label "bug", but not on "bug" and "good first issue")

Multiple conditions can be combined in a single trigger with the & and | operators.

There are also a couple helpful functions that may be included.

Actions

In addition to standard achievements, the Vaunt config can be used to create custom actions that may be referenced by achievements. Actions have many of the same fields as achievements with a few minor differences.

An action must specify the type field, which denotes the type of action being defined. Currently only point actions are supported, but we plan on adding additional types in the future.

Also the trigger object for actions has an addtional value field which specifies a numeric value for the action, which for the point type is the number of points awarded for completing the action.

Below is an example Vaunt config with actions and an achievement referencing the action:

version: 0.0.1
actions:
  - action:
      type: point
      name: commits
      triggers:
        - trigger:
            actor: author
            action: commit
            condition: count(created_at >= 01-01-2023) >= 1
            value: 4
  - action:
      type: point
      name: prs
      triggers:
        - trigger:
            actor: author
            action: pull_request
            condition: merged = true & created_at >= 01-01-2023
            value: 10
achievements:
  - achievement:
      name: Top Contributor 2023
      icon: contributor.png
      description: Awarded to the top contributor of 2023
      type: once
      metadata:
        date: 01-01-2024
      triggers:
          - trigger:
                actor: author
                action: point
                condition: rank(1) sum(commits, prs)

Functions

• count()

Count can be used to return the number of times an action has occurred. For example, the commit action with a condition of count() >= 10 would be fulfilled when a user has 10 or more commits in the repository.

You can additionally include conditionals inside the parenthesis of the count function to restrict which actions would be included in the count. For example, on a pull_request action the condition count(merged = true) >= 10 would resolve for users that have created 10 or more pull requests that have been merged.

• age({interval})

Age can be used to include the age of pull_request, issues, reviews, or discussions in the condition. Age is defined as the time from open to close of the given action.

The {interval} value must be one of either seconds, minutes, hours, or days.

For example, the condition age(days) < 10 on a pull_request action would resolve to pull_requests that were merged in less than 10 days.

• sum({actions})

Sum can be used to aggregate the values of one or more defined actions to award achievements for. Multiple actions can be provided as a comma delimited list. For example the condition sum(commits, prs) > 10 would award an achievement to users that have earned at least 10 points accross the user defined commits and prs actions.

• rank({num})

Rank can be used with the point action to specify that an achievement is awarded specifically to the user at the provided rank. This can be used alongside the sum() function to order users by a given action. For example, rank(1) & sum(my_action) would award the achievement to the user that has the most number of points based on their contributions and the criteria of my_action.