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 when you put your project on the platform, you will automatically have access to a dashboard, giving you four key sections to track contributor activity:

• New contributors: See who’s made their first contribution to your project so you can follow up or guide them if needed.
• Most active contributors: Find out who’s pushing the most PRs, closing issues, and reviewing code.
• Struggling contributors: Identify contributors who may be stuck and need a little extra help.
• Churned contributors: See who has stopped contributing and check in to find out why.

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

Select the right contributo 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
On your project page, on the left hand side, you will see the following tabs: “overview”, “contributors”, “contributions”, “rewards”.

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.

On the “contributions” tab, you will see a dashboard that shows all the contributions that have been made - whether they are complete, in progress or canceled. This dashboard helps you to have a better overview of the work that has been done. As mentioned, this is synced from GitHub, so everything you see in the dashboard is in real-time.

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, either click on the top right corner of your page on “reward contributor” or look at the left hand side of your screen where you will see “overview”, “contributors”, “contributions”, “rewards”. Click on “rewards”.

If you go through the second process, you will be able to see a dashboard of your remaining budget, amount spent, reward sent and how many contributors you rewarded. That way you have a better overview of how you are spending and how much you can spend!

To reward a contributor, simply search for the contributor’s GitHub handle or go into the “contributors” tab to have an overview of contributors that have participated in your project and reward from there.