On the Relationship between Newcomer Motivations and Contribution Barriers in Open Source Projects
Christoph Hannebauer, Volker Gruhn · 2017
There has been extensive research on the the factors that motivate software developers to contribute to an Open Source Software (OSS) project. Contribution barriers are the counter-side to motivations and prevent newcomers from joining the OSS project. This study searches for relations between motivations and contribution barriers with a web-based survey of 117 developers who had recently contributed their first patch to either Mozilla or GNOME.