I wore both hats. Something to note is that PR-ing your own repo counts as well but I digress. As a submitter: It's a good experience as I don't get an excuse

I wore both hats. Something to note is that PR-ing your own repo counts as well but I digress. As a submitter: It's a good experience as I don't get an excuse to dive deep into some open source tech every day. Plus I get a comfy t-shirt with a cool design at the end. This month I will try to mess around with .NET Core's core. As a maintainer: Definitely a non-negligible part of the PRs is garbage. Not everyone is doing this in good spirit. Some PRs are there just fix a typo which is okay I guess but meh. I won't be much of a maintainer this month as my main project's target was php<5.6 but there isn't a better alternative yet. Once again I digress. I am surprised HF isn't higher on HN right now. It's a cool thing.