For the purposes of the article - "How to get people to work on your project" - won't tidier code (as in: it looks pretty when viewed on GitHub) - be more likel

For the purposes of the article - "How to get people to work on your project" - won't tidier code (as in: it looks pretty when viewed on GitHub) - be more likely to attract potential contributors? Getting the code to work as intended is obviously key - who wants to contribute to a project that doesn't even work? - but my personal view (with no data to support it) is that people are more likely to contribute if they think they can add something to the project, and the speed of being able to come to terms with the project's code base forms a good part of their calculations on how/where to spend (waste?) their spare time. ... Not that it's worked for my project. But then I'm also a poet and my need to make things look pretty on a page sometimes overtakes my need to make sure the code works. All poets know how to "Fail with motherfucking gusto"; we also know how to look stylish while doing it!