Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects¶
Steinmacher. (2015). Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects. ACM.
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- Participatory Culture
- Projects that supply only the tooling but lack the mentorship and recognition dimension routinely stall, collecting drive-by contributions without building a durable contributor base — exactly the concept's negative prediction
This sourceA qualitative model of 58 barriers, 13 of them social, that stop open-source newcomers from completing a first contribution and lead them to drop out; it evidences why tooling alone does not convert newcomers into sustained contributors, and stops short of any claim about projects stalling.
- Projects that supply only the tooling but lack the mentorship and recognition dimension routinely stall, collecting drive-by contributions without building a durable contributor base — exactly the concept's negative prediction
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