Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects

Steinmacher, I., Conte, T., Gerosa, M. A., & Redmiles, D. (2015). Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects. ACM.

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Year

2015

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10.1145/2675133.2675215

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Association for Computing Machinery

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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.

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