Consultation

Contributor Guide Rewrite

Rewrite of CONTRIBUTING and related onboarding docs so new engineers can complete a first useful change without tribal help.

Send a link to your current CONTRIBUTING file

Team collaborating around a shared workspace

Who it is for

Open-source maintainers and internal platform teams with slow first-contribution times.

What you receive

A tested contributor path from clone to merged change, documented in plain language.

Included

  • Journey mapping of the current contribution path
  • Rewrite of CONTRIBUTING and related how-to pages
  • Dry-run with a newcomer volunteer where available
  • Checklist for maintainers to keep the guide current

Not included

  • Video production
  • Community management

How the work proceeds

  1. Path mapping

  2. Draft

  3. Newcomer dry-run

  4. Final publish

Practical details

Provider: Technical writing consultant

Duration: Two to three weeks

Delivery: Remote collaboration against your repositories

Preparation: Grant staging access and nominate a newcomer tester if possible

Constraints: Works best when the repository build steps are already documented somewhere

Pricing: Fixed fee per repository set

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