Like many others, the only reason I didn't contribute at first was the anxieties of being judged, or otherwise irrationally thinking I didn't have what it takes. But everyone else can talk of that. I'm beyond those days now; here's what stops me nowadays:
I personally am turned off very fast when the CONTRIBUTING.md is overly complicated. Take Atom's for example... I don't have time for that. At the same time I'm sure there are reasons to have such complex instructions. Maybe it's just me.
A lot of other projects can seem really unwelcoming to contributors, too. For example, I don't have ANY motivation to get involved with Git nor the Linux kernel, because of Torvalds' attitude towards his developers (just look at this)
Another reason, in some projects there appear to be little to no quality control on pull requests, i.e. the maintainers seem to accept literally anything, causing so many problems with the codebase/project that it feels overwhelming to bother contributing.
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Like many others, the only reason I didn't contribute at first was the anxieties of being judged, or otherwise irrationally thinking I didn't have what it takes. But everyone else can talk of that. I'm beyond those days now; here's what stops me nowadays:
I personally am turned off very fast when the CONTRIBUTING.md is overly complicated. Take Atom's for example... I don't have time for that. At the same time I'm sure there are reasons to have such complex instructions. Maybe it's just me.
A lot of other projects can seem really unwelcoming to contributors, too. For example, I don't have ANY motivation to get involved with Git nor the Linux kernel, because of Torvalds' attitude towards his developers (just look at this)
Another reason, in some projects there appear to be little to no quality control on pull requests, i.e. the maintainers seem to accept literally anything, causing so many problems with the codebase/project that it feels overwhelming to bother contributing.