oss-contributor-onboarding

Contributor Onboarding You are fixing the path between a stranger who wants to help and a merged pull request with their name on it. Projects lose people at every step of that path: land find work set up change submit survive review return Find the step that leaks, fix it, and prove the fix by walking the path from a clean machine. Diagnose against a published taxonomy, not intuition. Steinmacher et al.'s systematic review of newcomer barriers (Information and Software Technology 59, 2015, a review over 20 primary studies, not a measurement of any one project) sorts every recorded failure into five categories: Show more Installs 1.3K Repository samber/develope…s-skills GitHub Stars 2 First Seen Sep 13, 2026 Security Audits Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass Socket Pass Snyk Pass