How do we encourage repeat contributions to Drupal Core?

We are awesome at helping people make their first contribution: creating an issue, manually trying a patch, improving a patch, updating issue summaries, etc. But, we could greatly improve our success rate at getting those people to continue a pattern of contributing.

We will present data on

• Time from first comment on a core issue to first core patch
• Average response time for getting reviews

We will discuss

• Why people who consistently contribute are so important
• Encouraging contributions
  • Give recognition for their first contribution
• Changes to remove barriers to *repeat* contributions
• Integrating sustainable contribution time for employees into business costs