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Invalid bug reports are sometimes documentation bugs

Invalid bug reports often represent real bugs, it’s just that they’re documentation bugs instead of software bugs.

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Do: not. Don’t: correct. The clock time of contributions tells you very little, and almost certainly not what you’re trying to learn.

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The curl project briefly achieved zero open issues. If you want that for your project, there are a few simple things to do.

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Giving contribution gifts can be a great way to reward people for the work they do in your project, but it comes with challenges.

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Community leaders are often too quick to segment conversations into different channels, which effectively hides the activity.

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Community-driven projects run on consensus. To make changes, you need buy-in from the core members, at a minimum.

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Doing less work is both effective and least likely to upset your users. Fewer functional features beats more half-implemented features.

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A pre-defined code of conduct enforcement process doesn’t make the work easy, but it reduces the strain and increases fairness.

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