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How do we know people have read our contributing guide?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the Seven Steps in dwyl/hq issue 147 and the repository README.md first, then examine how GitHub stars are being used as confirmation. Define and document an onboarding mechanism that confirms contributors have read, understood, and intend to follow the process; done means the confirmation is clear and usable.

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Description

discuss priority-1 question

Step 4 of the Seven Steps in https://github.com/dwyl/hq/issues/147 is to ⭐ this repo.

Why?

community-ibsen-quote

encouraging (requiring) people to ⭐ the repo to confirm they have read/understood and intend to follow the process is the only way I could think of to foster the necessary behaviour for success in 2017.

The prospect of getting $300 Headphones is a pretty decent "carrot" when you consider that reading the README.md. will take no more than 10 minutes.

We have collectively wasted countless hours of Dev & QA time over the past year
because people have not been required to follow process. ⌛️ 💸 🔥
Hours that should have been spent on the craft/features.
Which would have made users/stakeholders/clients happy.

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It's my fault for not making sure we had a clearer "onboarding" process...
We're going to fix it in 2017.

DWYL will be a well-oiled machine running on a hydrogen fuel-cell producing water in the desert! 👍

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Stars
91
Forks
9
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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