First-time contributors and maintainer balance (Changelog Interviews #246)

Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source, the burden and balance of a maintainer, and a few of the projects Kent maintains, including his latest project at PayPal called Glamourous.

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Featuring:

• Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• First Timers Only
• firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo
• all-contributors - ✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code ✨
• all-contributors-cli
• [egghead.io] - How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub
• Changelog.com on GitHub
• Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR
• Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR
• stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow
• Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds
• The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source
  with James Long
• Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long
• Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers
• Learning to Quit
• Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo
• Make a Pull Request

Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000.

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