We discussed that it's hard to know accurately what are substantive contributions. Through GitHub I expect it's easier to know explicitly what are non-substantive contributions based on the user saying "this is not substantive". I think it would be safer and more accurate to say "100 commits in the past year, of which 40 were labeled non-substantive" than "100 substantive changes in the past year."
We discussed that it's hard to know accurately what are substantive contributions. Through GitHub I expect it's easier to know explicitly what are non-substantive contributions based on the user saying "this is not substantive". I think it would be safer and more accurate to say "100 commits in the past year, of which 40 were labeled non-substantive" than "100 substantive changes in the past year."