cncf / tag-contributor-strategy

CNCF Technical Advisory Group on Contributor Strategy -- maintainer relations, building up contributors, governance, graduation, and more.

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Create advice document on how to incorporate brand-new contributors into your project

jberkus opened this issue · comments

One type of potential contributor that now shows up in large numbers in the CNCF community is the brand-new contributor -- someone, often a CS student, who has never contributed to public open source projects before. While these contributors require a lot of mentoring, there are a lot of them, and projects who can welcome them will have a healtier contributor pipeline.

We should write an advice guide on various ways to give brand-new contributors useful ways to contribute without overburdening maintainers.