What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs
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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

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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