Let's assume you contribute to Open Source from time to time and take a look at your GitHub timeline which looks quite empty, such as this one [1]. Valuable contributions, but demotivating on a wall.
This is quite bad because Open Source can also benefit from those contributors and it would be very nice to find a good way of visualising less contributions in a awesome looking and motivating graph. Any ideas for that?<p>[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExlFmmTWEAIUP0J?format=jpg&name=medium<p>Disclaimer/Why do I ask this: I am one of the founders of https://codeprints.dev and we sell custom prints of GitHub timelines. We encountered that many people are interested in our prints because they are also proud of their work. We got a lot of feedback that such a print can be very motivating. Unfortunately, if you have less contributions, the timeline looks quite empty and obviously, people don't want to put empty prints on their walls.
Maybe for people with spotty timelines, instead focus on the number of lines of code or something. Show the whole year as a pie chart, broken down by language, or framework, or something. Maybe show a wikipedia-style timeline view of contributions/commits by the user. That way long gaps can be obscured, since your timeline doesn't have to be perfectly linear.