A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
I'd argue that if you've only done 4 MRs for a t-shirt and are stopping there, then you have not completed it at all. You've totally failed in the spirit of the event. Hacktoberfest is there to encourage people to make meaningful contributions to OpenSource, and to help bring them in to the development world as an ongoing passion.
Unless you have found a project you are passionate about and will continue to contribute to it on an ongoing basis, you haven't "completed" Hacktoberfest, you've rushed your way to get a tshirt or plant a tree. You've potentially removed a reward from the pot for people who haven't taken part before, but would see the tree or tshirt reward as a token trophy on their way to better themselves and/or the wider community.
Looking at your GitHub profile, you've not contributed sinde June until today, and what you contributed to were repositories created today. It certainly looks like they were created simply to hit the 4 MR target.
Kinda makes me sad that people miss the entire point of HF and end up creating spam for maintaners to deal with. I hope digital ocean comes up with a way to deal with this.
A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
Because the repositories were created today and contributed today, I wouldn't be totally surprised if the accounts are for the same person, and the changes are old versions of code they had elsewhere just to make numbers. They are likely the maintainer of the repository they contributed to, but on a different account.
I have seen elsewhere that there are repositories which are getting spam contributions. It's one of the reasons why I am reluctant to join in (though I have signed up). I don't want a genuine contribution to be lost in a swathe of spam.
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I'd argue that if you've only done 4 MRs for a t-shirt and are stopping there, then you have not completed it at all. You've totally failed in the spirit of the event. Hacktoberfest is there to encourage people to make meaningful contributions to OpenSource, and to help bring them in to the development world as an ongoing passion.
Unless you have found a project you are passionate about and will continue to contribute to it on an ongoing basis, you haven't "completed" Hacktoberfest, you've rushed your way to get a tshirt or plant a tree. You've potentially removed a reward from the pot for people who haven't taken part before, but would see the tree or tshirt reward as a token trophy on their way to better themselves and/or the wider community.
Looking at your GitHub profile, you've not contributed sinde June until today, and what you contributed to were repositories created today. It certainly looks like they were created simply to hit the 4 MR target.
Kinda makes me sad that people miss the entire point of HF and end up creating spam for maintaners to deal with. I hope digital ocean comes up with a way to deal with this.
Because the repositories were created today and contributed today, I wouldn't be totally surprised if the accounts are for the same person, and the changes are old versions of code they had elsewhere just to make numbers. They are likely the maintainer of the repository they contributed to, but on a different account.
I have seen elsewhere that there are repositories which are getting spam contributions. It's one of the reasons why I am reluctant to join in (though I have signed up). I don't want a genuine contribution to be lost in a swathe of spam.