Ian Wagner :osm: 🦀 :freebsd: on Nostr: FOSS maintainers, do you find that the “good first issue” tag attracts new ...
FOSS maintainers, do you find that the “good first issue” tag attracts new contributors on GitHub? One of the projects I maintain has a fairly large backlog and I tagged a bunch of issues like this at one point and within the past few months I think I’ve got like 4 first time contributors. That kinda blew my mind given how huge GitHub is, how poorly specified my issues were, and how relatively niche the project is.
#foss #OpenSource
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