[tonglil]

I think one issue that the paper didn't really tackle was the question new contributors ask themselves when they want to contribute: "I don't want to bother people with patches they could have written themselves faster or better." (http://marti.us/w/2014-07-19-Mozilla-BSP.html)

When I first started out, I reported bugs, reproducible tests, and contributed to issue discussions, but didn't write PRs because I felt as if my coding style or complexity could not live up to the source. There is often a intimidation factor when thinking about submitting code to the maintainers (even though it is not on purpose).

Even now after contributing some code, I sometimes still feel the same way when it comes to repos by well-known names in the communities.