Let Me In: Guidelines for the Successful Onboarding of Newcomers to Open Source Projects
Igor Steinmacher, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa · IEEE Software · 2018
Many community-based open source software (OSS) projects depend on a continuous influx of newcomers for their survival and continuity, yet newcomers face many barriers to contributing to a project. We provide guidelines based on our previous work for both OSS communities and newcomers to OSS projects.