Provide feedback quickly on first attempts at contribution

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Ten Simple Rules for Helping Newcomers Become Contributors to Open Source Projects

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Provide feedback quickly on first attempts at contribution #8

Closed gvwilson closed 5 years ago

gvwilson commented 5 years ago

Make sure that newcomers' first attempts to contribute (through conversations or code) get a response quickly so that they believe someone is paying attention.

Q: does having a test suite newcomers can run easily count as providing feedback quickly? It isn't personal or human, but it does tell people whether they're on the right track.

igorsteinmacher commented 5 years ago

would we merge with #6 somehow? One rule about communication, maybe?

igorsteinmacher commented 5 years ago

Merging with #6