Ask HN: How do you invite contributors to contribute on your project?

Re:Ask HN: How do you invite contributors to contribute on y... by kbr on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:06PM (#14821598)

I usually don't invite contributors to my own project. Instead, people who are interested will naturally begin to make more and more issues and pull requests as they get more into your project.

If you get a project out there, people interested in it will start to help out. Gradually, this turns into that person becoming a contributor to a project.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you invite contributors to contribute on y... by mobitar on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:41PM (#14821882)

I second this. I've noticed that when you solicit contributions, they never come. They need to come of their own accord. I created a "contribute" repo [1] for Standard Notes because a lot of people were asking "how can I contribute?" But it's been collecting dust. Instead, people contribute when they want to, from different sources.

[1] https://github.com/standardnotes/contribute

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