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Excellent. Reading the PR notes on how it'll now work, this sounds imminently sensible: - projects can opt in by adding a keyword to their project description
by TheRealPomax 6y ago
Excellent. Reading the PR notes on how it'll now work, this sounds imminently sensible:
- projects can opt in by adding a keyword to their project description on github for a month. That's barely any effort for projects that care, and
- PRs that are merged won't count unless the project maintainers welcome hacktober contributions and are willing to add a label that marks a PR as "this one counts".
And if "not getting a $20 T-shirt for free" is the only thing making a difference between you contributing a meaningful PR to a project, and not contributing a PR at all, then let's face it: the open source world really isn't worse off.
- sofixa 6y agoIsn't it worst off? It's a meaningful contribution worse off. Do you take the same stance with people who are paid to make OSS contributions?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThose people are paid for in-demand fixes, not for pushing their PRs on people.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoA project not getting a PR that it would otherwise also not have gotten is nothing lost.