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Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects by JD557 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:27AM (#21386343)
> * Have a style guide. Link it in the README. This saves you time in review.

I would go even further and recommend using some automatic style formatter. That way, you can fail the CI step if the code is not correctly formatted and that problem is trivial to fix (just run the formatter).

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Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects by saagarjha on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:45AM (#21386483)
Plus I find that having an impersonal tool tell people that they did something "wrong" makes them a lot more likely to fix it and still be amenable to your future suggestions.
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Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects by FeepingCreature on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:29AM (#21386353)
Oh yeah, good point.
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