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Maintainers

Make the best out of OnlyDust

Signed up on OnlyDust with your project? Here’s how to get the most out of it and streamline your project management. From assigning issues to rewarding contributors, we’ve built tools to help you manage your open-source projects faster and easier—all in one place.

A project dashboard: get the insights you need

We know how important it is for you to keep tabs on your project’s progress. That’s why we created a dashboard where you can have an overview of your project's contributions, its contributions and if eligible, its financials.

These insights help you stay on top of your project’s activity and keep your community engaged and productive.

Select the right contributor for the job: centralized applications

Forget switching between GitHub and OnlyDust to manage who commented on your issues. We’ve centralized everything to make your life easier.

With the Applications Tab in OnlyDust, maintainers can:

  • See who has applied for specific issues with detailed profiles of each contributor.
  • Review their qualifications before assigning the issue, ensuring you’re picking the best fit for the task.
  • Check out important details like application date, repo info, and the contributor’s history, including how many issues they’ve worked on.

With this feature, you can confidently assign tasks to contributors who are most likely to succeed—and all without leaving the platform.

Put your project in front of a global pool of contributors. With OnlyDust, you can:

  • Showcase your repo: Attract new contributors by listing your open-source repo.
  • Onboard fresh talent: Contributors can easily find your issues—no more waiting for someone to stumble across your GitHub.

Get your project seen and get more hands on deck!

We have created a dashboard where you can have a simple overview of your contributors and their contributions. All synched from GitHub. This makes it simple for you to know who to reward.

Contributor dashboard

When you click on the “contributors” tab, you will have an overview of your contributors, number of contributions, rewards they have received and what they have earned. You will also see a tab of “to reward”. This gives you an overview of the types of contributions the contributor made and what you can reward them on.

Rewarding contributions
If you have allocated budget, you will be able to reward contributions in just a few clicks on OnlyDust!

There are two ways to do so.

On your project page, click on the top right corner of your page on “reward contributor”. A side panel will show up where you can click on the contributors you'd like to reward and follow the next steps.

You can also click on the "Done" Column in the Contributions dashboard, and click on reward for the specific contributor you'd like to reward.

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Oftentimes, we've been asked what is the amount recommended for rewards. This is up to you. But note that if your project is eligible for retroactive grants, our system automatically values it.