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What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022)

www.freecodecamp.org What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs

Hacktoberfest is a month long celebration of open source. And this year I participated as a maintainer for freeCodeCamp's Developer Quiz Site [https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/Developer_Quiz_Site]. I merged a total of 356 pull requests and helped a lot of new contributors get started with open source...

What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs
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  • I still don’t understand why Hacktoberfest get so much hype. I don’t even understand Hacktoberfest meanings. Is it to get shiny badges on GitHub accounts?

    • It's just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.

      • So annoying. It is useless to bring gamification to open source projects. It won’t enhance quality nor bring reliable contributors. People should contribute to FLOSS projects without such things IMO.

        • I'm not sure that's true. It attracts attention and can induce momentum to get people familiar with a particular project or just open source contribution in general.

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        • Seems like an odd reaction. I like codberg and encourage it's use, but I wouldn't say non-participation hacktoberfest is a reason to use it instead of other options.

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            • This doesn't seem like something that rizes to the level of a reason to recommend the use of codberg over other options on its own. I would certainly not recommend switching an existing project based on this alone.

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