What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022)
Submitted 1 year ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-i-learned-as-a-hacktoberfest-repo-maintainer/
pylapp@programming.dev 1 year ago
I still don’t understand why Hacktoberfest get so much hype. I don’t even understand Hacktoberfest meanings. Is it to get shiny badges on GitHub accounts?
ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.
pylapp@programming.dev 1 year ago
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.