checker

A checker for project owners to measure their open source project if welcoming or not.

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WOSPM0021

Idenditiy

Property Value
code WOSPM0021
title GITHUB_RESPONSIVENESS
message Responsive owners encourage users to be contributors.
type MetricType::ERROR

Rationale

Being responsive when someone files an issue, submits a pull request, or asks a question about your project helps people to be more enthusiastic about participating. According to the Open Source Survey 2017 by Github, 80 percent of the people thinks that unresponsiveness is a problem encountered in open source.

WOSPM/Checker checks if:

Even if you can’t review the request immediately, acknowledging it early helps increase engagement.