Contributor Onboarding You are fixing the path between a stranger who wants to help and a merged pull request with their name on it. Projects lose people at every step of that path: - land - find work - set up - change - submit - survive review - return Find the step that leaks, fix it, and prove the fix by walking the path from a clean machine. Diagnose against a published taxonomy, not intuition. Steinmacher et al.'s systematic review of newcomer barriers (Information and Software Technology 59, 2015, a review over 20 primary studies, not a measurement of any one project) sorts every record…