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[Yuvraj-Sarathe]

🏅 Introducing the Contributor Badge Program

🌟 How it works

We’ve broken contributions into five families. Each family has its own badge track, with four tiers of increasing prestige. You earn points from contributions inside a single family – mix and match small and large efforts to climb the ladder.

Contribution Levels & Point Values

Every contribution is reviewed by maintainers and assigned a depth level:

Level	Impact	Points	Example
🌱 Seedling	Clear, self‑contained, minimal review	1 pt	Typo fix, well‑described feature request, small GitHub Action
🌿 Sapling	Notable effort, visible improvement	3 pts	New tutorial page, a component with tests, a CI pipeline that catches broken builds
🌳 Oak	High‑impact, shapes the project’s future	9 pts	Major feature adopted into roadmap, critical security fix, a fully automated release pipeline

Points are family‑locked – a Frontend PR can’t help you get a Backend badge. But you can earn badges in multiple families at the same time!

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🛠️ The Five Badge Families

Family	What qualifies	Badge Tiers (Points needed)
🖥️ Frontend	UI code, components, accessibility, design‑to‑code	Apprentice (5) → Artisan (15) → Master (45) → Grandmaster (135)
📚 Documentation	Docs, tutorials, translations, READMEs, API references	Apprentice (5) → Scribe (15) → Expert (45) → Grandmaster (135)
💡 Ideas	Feature proposals, UX research, architecture suggestions (no code!)	Seed (5) → Cultivator (15) → Visionary (45) → Oracle (135)
🤝 Community	Answering questions, reviewing PRs, onboarding, moderation, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, automation that helps the project	Helper (5) → Builder (15) → Leader (45) → Champion (135)
⚙️ Backend	Server‑side logic, APIs, databases, performance, infrastructure (non‑CI)	Apprentice (5) → Artisan (15) → Master (45) → Grandmaster (135)

Example:
3 Seedling Frontend PRs (3 pts) + 1 Sapling component (3 pts) = 6 pts → you qualify for Frontend Apprentice. Later, a major frontend feature worth 9 Oak pts would bring you to 15 pts → Frontend Artisan.

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🔗 Automatic Tracking with the Contributor Dashboard

We’re launching a website (like the GSSOC leaderboard) that integrates directly with your GitHub ID. Here’s how it makes your life easier:

1. Sign up with your GitHub account on the platform.
2. Your contributions – pull requests, issues, discussions, commits – are automatically fetched.
3. For each contribution, you self‑assess the level (Seedling/Sapling/Oak) and submit it for review.
4. Maintainers approve and lock in the points from the dashboard.
5. Your real‑time progress bar shows how close you are to each badge tier.
6. When you cross a threshold, you can claim the badge instantly (while the tier quota lasts), and the SVG is generated right there – ready to embed.

No more manual logs, no more guesswork. The system ensures fairness and transparency.

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🌈 Special Badges (Rare, Cross‑Family)

These are awarded by a maintainers’ vote and have only 5 spots in total. They can be held on top of your family badges.

Badge	Quota	Awarded For
🌟 Visionary of the Year	1	An idea or direction that redefined the project’s future.
🛡️ Guardian of Quality	1	A bug report, test suite, or security disclosure that prevented a critical failure.
🧭 Community Anchor	1	Consistent, behind‑the‑scenes support that held the community together.
⚡ Automation Architect	1	A CI/CD pipeline or GitHub Action that dramatically improved project velocity.
🏆 Maintainers’ Choice	1	Any contribution that deeply impressed the core team.