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M A I N T A I N I N G A N R P A C K A G E
• Casual contributors are common
• Long tail of small contributions
• Roughly half of contributors
responsible for ~2% of commits
• Typos, bugs, new features, refactoring
Pinto, Gustavo, Igor Steinmacher, and Marco Aurélio Gerosa. "More common than you
think: An in-depth study of casual contributors." 2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference
on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER). Vol. 1. IEEE, 2016.