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Provide an option to include private contributions in contribution graph

✅ Merged and ready for GitLab 11.3

Problem description

Currently, it is not possible to see contributions to private projects in your public contribution calendar.

Design

  • Provide checkbox setting to enable this feature in: User Settings > Profile
  • By default, this option should be turned off

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Private contributions
Include private contributions on my profile
Choose to show contributions to private projects on your public profile without any project, repository or organization information
  • Showing this off on the profile contribution calendar

Also see the Mr discussion from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/17296#note_62092483

We have recent contributions and contributions dedicated to a selected day. Both are displayed differently.

Get rid of the following red boxed text elements and replace it with in a private project

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This would result in:

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Of course, there is more to this than just this contribution...

Administrator created project Administrator / gke-demo would need to be changed to Administrator created a private project

We need to solve this for each kind of contribution with a little bit of common sense as to how to dictate the copy for it. Let's discuss this in the merge request.

  • Setting on profile page

Use following icons from http://gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-svgs/

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This would look like:

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With the dropdown looking like:

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Original proposal/description

So I have my personal profile page here:

https://gitlab.com/u/cbanga

To the public user, my commit history looks like this:

Screen_Shot_2016-03-07_at_12.02.19_PM

But for me privately, it looks like this: Screen_Shot_2016-03-07_at_12.02.36_PM

I would love to link to GitLab in my resume/portfolio, etc. And the second graph looks much better from that standpoint with respect to my work. I would LOVE to be able to get that graph on my public page, with maybe some info on the number of repositories I've committed to in total, etc. I can see some users having issue with this and privacy, so maybe an opt-in?

Something like having my private graph, with a line under that said "CBanga has made X commits to Y repositories over the past 365 days." would be a really neat and powerful way for me to link my GitLab in my portfolios/resume, and much better than GitHub, etc. I know this number is totally useless, easily manipulated, etc. But some people actually care about this (unfortunately), so a blank profile just looks bad, and I would never share it.

Edited by George Tsiolis