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Prerequisite

Repository & Badge Settings

You can now go to Issues > Badge in your Polar dashboard to customize issue funding across your repositories.

Customize Badge Settings

Markdown description

Custom markdown text to be inserted before the Polar Badge. Great way to offer additional and personal context. We offer a default suggestion, but you can easily edit it and even remove it entirely.

Minimum funding amount

The minimum amount required for funding by individual backers (default is $20)

Public rewards (Optional)

Enable & promote a default percentage split of the funding pool with potential contributors who help squash an issue.

Embed Settings

So we have our badge setup & ready - amazing! Let's configure how we want to embed it for each repository.

Manual: Issues by Label

This is the default setting and a great way to try things out. You then have complete control of which issues you want to embed the Polar Badge on using the label Fund (case insensitive).

  • You can label via GitHub directly and see the badge embedded within seconds
  • You can label & badge an issue with one-click through the Polar dashboard

Automated: All Issues

Ok, you're loving it. Let's unleash it across all issues to promote funding to our community and let them help vote & fund the most impactful efforts. Combined with using rewards to distribute it across your contributors. Just like tRPC has.

  • All will ensure all future issues are badged automatically & directly upon creation

  • You'll get the option to badge all existing - open - issues too. However, for safety, we show how many issues would be updated and require you to explicitly confirm & trigger this action.

note

How GitHub issue ordering is affected by multiple updates

Since we update the issues to embed the Polar Badge the issues will get an updated modified_at timestamp.

By default, GitHub issues is sorted by created_at so it's not impacted unless you specifically sort by modified_at.

However, when & if you select to badge all existing - open - issues, we do so in a batch and in reverse chronological modified_at order. So that even though we update them we do so in a way that should retain their previous order. We cannot promise, however, that it will guaranteed.

Next Step

Great, we're now setup. Let's review how you can work with issue funding.