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Discussion on: My hacktoberfest experience

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Waylon Walker

The kickoff of hacktoberfest this year was crazy. I saw so many spam labels browsing prs on various repos. I feel bad for those maintainers. Spamming these folks spending their free time maintaining a project is not ok, it's generally not to difficult to actually find a simple, but meaningful fix somewhere.

I started doing hacktoberfest at least three years ago and it has been a great experience. It was my first time commiting to open source. It definitely got me warmed up to the flow and now I commit a few prs a month. Many times is clarifying docs, fixing nitpicky and things, but they are generally warmly welcomed.

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Chris Bongers

For sure, you should want to do something constructive and learn from it.
It's also stupid to just add a word like "awesome" to a repo, what did that bring you as a person.
But well, luckily many people learn a lot from it.