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[Pattern Draft] Recruiting and nurturing contributors for InnerSource projects

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Description

In conversations in Slack @MaineC has shared many great tips about how to keep the number of contributors to a project healthy. Her tips are focused on

  1. increasing the number of contributors
  2. helping contributors to level up into the role of Trusted Committer

We would like to interview her about these topics, and see how we could turn this content into a pattern.

See our full pattern syntax to understand the type of information we would like to extract by doing an interview.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading meta/pattern-template.md to understand the required pattern structure, then arrange an interview with MaineC about recruiting contributors and helping them become Trusted Committers. Done means turning the interview content into a draft pattern that follows the repository's full pattern syntax.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
markdown
Domain
content, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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