One guy said there is a big Indian programming channel (TV or YouTube not sure) that promoted hacktoberfest yesterday and showed some steps on how to participate. So my guess is he showed them how to add "Amazing Project" kinds of comments and how to issue a PR and they all run with it thinking that's how contribution is done.
I have been a software professional since I was in high school in 1998. I'm enthusiastic about open source, and I really enjoy working in unusual software systems or within strange constraints.
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
It's nice to get the t-shirt, but that is not the goal. It's a fun incentive, but the real goal is to get excited about open source and make meaningful contributions and also to help out others.
To get that sweet sweet t-shirt
/s
Some maintainers are having a hard time with spammers, sadly 😕
github.com/search?o=desc&q=is%3Apr...
I am really having a blast reading through some of the PRs 😂
Good stuff ahah!
I wonder how many of those are bots. I definitely see a pattern in the PRs.
Personally, I don't think they are bots.
One guy said there is a big Indian programming channel (TV or YouTube not sure) that promoted hacktoberfest yesterday and showed some steps on how to participate. So my guess is he showed them how to add "Amazing Project" kinds of comments and how to issue a PR and they all run with it thinking that's how contribution is done.
This is just gross.
It's nice to get the t-shirt, but that is not the goal. It's a fun incentive, but the real goal is to get excited about open source and make meaningful contributions and also to help out others.
I was joined Hacktoberfest from 2019. That's make me contribute code on Github and sharing ideas in Dev. Hacktoberfest is door to open source world!
If you didn't know, the /s at the end of my post stands for sarcasm 😂
Hahahhaha 😂😂😂