Its good old Goodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." This culture of submitting a PR to get into conference or get

Its good old Goodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." This culture of submitting a PR to get into conference or get some swag has been there for a while. If I recall correctly, during the peak of openstack summits, it was a requirement to submit some BS PR to show that the engineers contributed to openstack repo.