Resources
How to onboard contributors, shape useful work and keep review clear, whether or not you use Devprentice.
A practical definition of an open-source apprenticeship: how it differs from casual contribution, what the maintainer provides, and what the developer practices.
Read the guide: What is an open-source apprenticeship?A practical first-week path for new open-source contributors: starter issues that lead somewhere, a named reviewer, visible rules, and a plan for the second contribution.
Read the guide: How to onboard open-source contributorsHow to turn a slice of your open-source backlog into a bounded contributor program, with one outcome, ordered milestones, real acceptance criteria, and honest review capacity.
Read the guide: Turn your backlog into a contributor programHow maintainers and contributors can agree on review response times, what done means, blocking versus optional feedback, and how changes are requested and resubmitted.
Read the guide: Set clear code review expectations with contributorsJunior roles are scarce and AI makes it easy to ship code you don't understand. Mentored open-source programs give newer developers real experience, with feedback, that anyone can check on GitHub.