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Ten Simple Rules for Helping Newcomers Become Contributors to Open Source Projects
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Rule 9: Streamline and automate the setup of your development environment #18

Closed mhoye closed 5 years ago

mhoye commented 5 years ago

This needs to be fleshed out a bit, but the gist of it is that getting set up to work on the project should be treated like a product - that is, made simple or automated as much as possible, with any unnecessary complexity sanded down or or removed.

gvwilson commented 5 years ago

Thanks - please assign to me when you've got 3-4 paragraphs. Will you be able to quote any data on e.g. uptick in contributions as Mozilla simplified Firefox dev setup?

gvwilson commented 5 years ago

ping