How to assess for newcommers onboarding barriers on CONTRIBUTING files?

[avallecam]

When we created the CONTRIBUTING file, we did not review or assess the content of the template file. Is there any standard to self-assess for this file?

[avallecam]

We can analyse a CONTRIBUTING.md file with an online tool like https://contributing.streamlit.app/
Take a look at the related paper: https://fron.ch/preprint_fse.pdf

As an example, I just assessed the current template getting the topics of

• Choose a task,
• Talk to the community, and
• Contribution flow: