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. We were able to add a total
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.
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.
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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It’s just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.
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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.
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.