Let me in: Guidelines for the successful onboarding of newcomers to open source projects

Author

Igor STEINMACHER
Christoph TREUDE, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Marco Aurélio GEROSA

Publication Type

Magazine Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2019

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.

Keywords

Open source software (OSS), Inclusivity, OSS communities

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

IEEE Software

Volume

36

Issue

4

First Page

41

Last Page

49

ISSN

0740-7459

Identifier

10.1109/MS.2018.110162131

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Citation

STEINMACHER, Igor; TREUDE, Christoph; and GEROSA, Marco Aurélio. Let me in: Guidelines for the successful onboarding of newcomers to open source projects. (2019). IEEE Software. 36, (4), 41-49.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8793

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2018.110162131