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alexellisuk
on Sept 30, 2020
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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Sourc...
"Only" 24k spam PRs. Face palm
Aeolun
on Sept 30, 2020
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Only 4.8% spam PRs better? The absolute number means nothing.
In a sea of 5B PRs, 24k would look impossibly good.
seba_dos1
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Does "only 24k MRs had maintainers that bothered to properly mark them as spam per hacktoberfest's guide" sound so "impossibly good" as well?
dkersten
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The absolute number definitely does mean something! Its work created for maintainers. Checking and tagging a PR takes non-zero time. Creating 24,000 invalid PR's is a massive burden on the open source community.
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