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A lot of people who maintain FOSS projects would like to get more contributions.

What can the maintainer do to ensure that potential contributors are converted into actual contributors?

There are many things you can do to encourage people to contribute to your project, up to and including paying them a full time salary to do so. But nobody would seriously claim that it's reasonable to expect every FOSS maintainer who wants more contributions to offer paid positions. That is why I am asking about a reasonable minimum - things that any maintainer can be reasonably expected to do if they care at all about encouraging people to contribute, and there's no real excuse not to do them.

To encouraged more focused answers, let's assume the project is hosted as a single repository on a code host with a web interface like Gitlab.

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