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If you want to volunteer for a project, just contact a project manager (through email or something) declaring the number of hours you're able to donate and your skills. They'll usually give you a good direction to start.

Drive-by commits are time-consuming to maintain. I don't see why maintainers even deal with them.

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I can only speak for myself but I prefer not to manually onboard new contributors. I'd rather do a near-infinite number other things with that time.

Add a contributors guide, link to it in your README. GH even has some functionality built-in to link to it these days. Help contributors help themselves and spend that time on something else.

Well the alternative is to deal with poor/unresearched PRs, or to not accept volunteer contributions at all (which is what I do with most of my own open-source projects.)

They are just as time consuming as any other code you haven't written yourself.

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