Managing an open-source community requires specific professional vocabulary. Learn the collocations for governing contributions, handing over projects, adopting community standards, and sustaining community momentum.
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The project maintainer wrote detailed contribution guidelines to help new members ___ their first pull request.
Submit a pull request is the canonical GitHub and open-source collocation. 'Push' refers to git operations; 'send' is informal; 'deliver' is used for features. 'Submit a pull request' is the standard phrase across all major open-source contribution workflows.
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After years of solo maintenance, the original author decided to ___ governance to a community steering committee.
Hand over governance is the natural collocation for formally transferring project authority. 'Transfer governance' is also correct but more legalistic; 'pass' is too casual; 'move' lacks the intentional handoff nuance. 'Hand over' is the idiomatic choice for personal responsibility transfer.
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The community struggled to ___ maintainer burnout after the core team shrank to two people.
Address maintainer burnout is the natural collocation in OSS community health discussions. 'Prevent' implies anticipation; 'avoid' implies evasion; 'solve' implies a clean solution. 'Address' is the appropriate verb for an ongoing, complex organizational challenge.
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The team decided to ___ a Code of Conduct to make the repository more welcoming to diverse contributors.
Adopt a Code of Conduct is the standard open-source community collocation. 'Create' and 'write' imply authorship only; 'publish' is about distribution. 'Adopt' signals that the community formally commits to the CoC as a governing document — the correct action in OSS governance.
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Triaging issues regularly helped the maintainers ___ momentum in the community and show that feedback was valued.
Maintain momentum is the natural collocation for sustained community activity. 'Keep momentum' is also natural but slightly informal; 'build momentum' is for initial growth phases; 'create momentum' implies starting from zero. 'Maintain' best describes sustaining existing energy in an established community.