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docs: add growing your project section
Description
This PR adds a section to the Maintainers Guide on growing open source projects. It will give maintainers an idea on how OpenSauced can help them with this process.
What I have done so far
[x] Add
growing-your-project.md
todocs > maintainers
[x] In
sidebar.js
, add `maintainers/growing-your-project' path below the guide: "maintainers/maintainers-guide-to-open-sauced",[x] In
growing-your-project.md
, create the following sections:
[x] When to grow your project (brief explanation of need to get more contributors or add people to teams (maintainers, triage, docs)
[x] How to identify new contributors and team members
- [x] Look at existing contributors. How is there participation? Are they engaged? Are they invested in the success of the project?
- [x] Create an insight page with your projects. Add the most active contributors to a list.
[x] Recruiting team members and contributors
- [x] Create an insight page with projects similar to yours. Add contributors you think might be a good fit to a list. After spending some time monitoring, reach out to them.
[x] Understanding Team Participation.
- [x] It's important to monitor team participation. Once you have someone on a team, add them to your list to monitor your participation. (Use the team sync feature -- link to the gif). It's useful to set a timeframe for how active they need to be.
Related Tickets & Documents
Closes #235
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Steps to QA
Tier (staff will fill in)
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