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Survey: Open-Source Documentation for Newcomers

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Description

Hello React Community!

We are researchers from George Mason University in the United States, looking for open-source contributors to participate in our survey on open-source software (OSS) project documentation use when onboarding. If you are 18 or older and contributed to an OSS project in the last one year, you can help!

The objective of our research is to better understand what type of documentation in OSS projects is more helpful for project newcomers. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes, and upon successful completion of the survey, you will be able to participate in a draw for a chance to win one of four Amazon.com gift cards worth $50 via email.

The link to survey: https://go.gmu.edu/Onboarding_Study

We would be greatly appreciative if you would be willing to participate in this study and help us improve the effectiveness of the onboarding to software projects.

If this message would best be directed or reposted somewhere, please let us know, and we will be happy to modify/repost it.

Thank you for considering participating in our research study!

Research Team: Nursena Kurubas, Dr. Kevin Moran and Dr. Brittany Johnson

IRBNet #: 2029296-1

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

No project files, tests, or entry points are mentioned. This is a request for contributors to complete an external 10-minute survey, so no repository change or project-specific completion check is described.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
10/100

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