Improve sort order of contributors

We are processing contributors as we find them in the "comments" property of the json representation of the issue ( https://www.drupal.org/api-d7/node/987238.json?drupalorg_extra_credit=1 → ).

Then we assign them to an array using the "username" as keys: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_records/-/blob/1.0.x/src...

But there is no ordering.

I will try to explore a sorting option based on the contextual activity that is being pulled via ajax.

Note that the order in d.o seems to be: number of patches, then number of files, then number of comments.

Given that patches and files should not really be _that_ important, I think the order should just be based on the activity volume. In this case, it could be: patches + files + comments, and then have a unique order.

d.o issues are going to go away so we can't do anything specific to them, it has to be as generic as possible.

Using the MR and the logic described above, we'd get this instead:

I think this is meaningful and simple enough,.

This is ready to review.

This is only available for maintainers, and they can choose to save the order.

Attached is a video with a voiceover about what's going on.

Merged. Hopefully this is good enough and the sorting is meaningful enough.

We can iterate through this in a follow up if needed.

fjgarlin → credited drumm → .

@drumm's idea on weighting:

We might want to do some weighting, multiply comments by 100, commits/files by 10000 or something like that. Effectively making it primary/secondary/tertiary sorts with only one comparison underneath

I’ll do: files x 100 + comments x 10 + reactions x 1

Committed the above suggestion.