Accepted merge requests author not shown as contributor
Recently I've started a new open source android project on GitHub (Open Weather App). One person forked the repository and made some changes, then he created a pull request and I accepted it by pressing this green button:
Everything worked just fine, the pull request was merged into master. However, the problem is that he did not appear in the contributors list. It still does say 1 contributor, which is me:
What could be the reason for him not to appear on the list, and how can I solve this issue?
I feel responsibility for him. I even added him to collaborators list, yet he still does not appear as a contributor.
At Contributions that are counted are 3 points listed which must be met by a contributor:
I checked your repo and the pull request and it seems like this point is not met:
The email address used for the commits is associated with your GitHub account