Why does some repos say "No contributors" when there are?
Some repos like Cromite, Ceno browser does not show any contributors on their main page despite a huge list of even recent contributors found at the insight>contributors graph.
Whereas, I've seen other repos that proudly display their top contributors (Searxng, IronFox etc). Why is this so? Do the owners toggle off a button that should show off the people contributing to the project
Ceno: https://github.com/ceno-app/ceno-android/graphs/contributors?all=1
Cromite: https://github.com/uazo/cromite/graphs/contributors?all=1
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Not certain, but that sidebar might be github account contributors, and the commit "contributors" may not have github accounts.
Didn't know one can contribute without an account. I thought it's something 'bout email address
Anyone can commit to a git repo, they don't need a github account. They could be doing their development on a different git host, and mirroring it to github.