New Developers/Quarterly/2018-04

This is the third edition of the New Developers Quarterly, a report covering activities, metrics, surveys and lessons learned in the Onboarding New Developers program. This report covers January to March 2018.

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Timeline
Newcomer-focused events, programs, and activities between January–March 2018:



New developers metrics and trends
See also Technical Collaboration Metrics - Onboarding New Developers.

Volunteers contributing patches for review
XX volunteers contributed between October–December 2017. (Source)

New volunteers attracted
XX new volunteers contributed between October–December 2017. (Source)

QoQ : xx%. YoY : xx%.

New volunteers retained
Percentage of volunteers active one year (± 3 months) after their first contribution, out of all new volunteers attracted one year ago (between July–September 2016). (Source: Calculation on data)

QoQ : xx%. YoY : xx%.

Review of changesets by new volunteers
xxx changesets were contributed by new volunteers. (Source: Calculation on data . Data as of MM dd, 2017.)

Projects with most new volunteers
xx new volunteers contributed to xx repositories. (Source: "Repos by New Authors")