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Every contributor identified as new contributor in repo without issues #369
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Hi, thanks for this tool.
In the repository I work on, we've disabled GitHub Issues.
In 3.1 (and likely since v2), we've found that all contributors are identified as new contributors.
I suppose that's because isFirstIssue returns true:
first-interaction/__tests__/main.test.ts
Line 178 in ee654d9
And that check must be false to be identified as an existing contributor:
Lines 40 to 42 in 1c46889
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github-actions commentedon Oct 12, 2025
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rcomer commentedon Oct 15, 2025
I have been playing with this in my fork of Matplotlib which, until today, also had issues switched off. Even after I turn issues on and open one, I still get the "new contributor" message on PRs.
https://github.com/rcomer/matplotlib/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Apr
posquit0 commentedon Dec 18, 2025
Same here.
Fix: Filter PRs by user in isFirstPullRequest
ci: revert first-interaction to v1.3.0 (fix false first-PR greetings)
Replace broken `actions/first-interaction` with an inline script
fix(ci): stop welcoming returning contributors as first-timers (#172)
ci: revert first-interaction to v1.3.0 and block major bumps
Greet only on a contributor's first interaction of any type