Drupal has this problem, and has tried to counter this fact with: - novice tags for bugs [1] - mentions on your project bio page detailing how many contributio

Drupal has this problem, and has tried to counter this fact with: - novice tags for bugs [1] - mentions on your project bio page detailing how many contributions you have on drupal projects in the past three monts (even if it was only rolling a patch or commenting, if your name is just mentioned in the commit, you don't need to be the author) [2] - and a lot of documentation on getting started [3] And Dries (the creator of drupal) touch this same topic (comparing open source with the commons) in a 2014 DrupalCon keynote): https://youtu.be/4NN5EM4CYVE?t=10m45s https://youtu.be/4NN5EM4CYVE?t=10m45s [1] https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status[0]=1&status[1]=8&status[2]=13&issue_tags_op=%3D&issue_tags=Novice https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status[0]=1&sta... [2] https://www.drupal.org/u/catch https://www.drupal.org/u/catch [3] https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks https://www.drupal.org/getting-involved https://www.drupal.org/getting-involved