Abstract
Many community-based open source software (OSS) projects depend on a continuous influx of newcomers for their survival and continuity, yet newcomers face many barriers to contributing to a project. We provide guidelines based on our previous work for both OSS communities and newcomers to OSS projects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 8254320 |
Pages (from-to) | 41-49 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | IEEE Software |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1 2019 |
Keywords
- computer-supported cooperative work group and organization interfaces
- human factors
- information interfaces and represent
- information technology and systems
- machine systems
- models and principles
- newcomers
- open source software
- user
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software